[ALAC] Fwd: [SOAC-Leaders] Informed and Active Domain Name Registrants are Essential for a Secure and Stable DNS - ICANN by Akram Atallah

[Alberto Soto]

Yes, It's a good start, I hope that shovel keeps opening and not covering…

Regards

 

Alberto

 

De: alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] En nombre de Evan Leibovitch
Enviado el: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 12:21 PM
Para: León Felipe Sánchez Ambía <leonfelipe at sanchez.mx>
CC: ALAC <alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>; Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
Asunto: Re: [ALAC] Fwd: [SOAC-Leaders] Informed and Active Domain Name Registrants are Essential for a Secure and Stable DNS - ICANN by Akram Atallah

 

Throughout all of our work, we endeavor to serve the global public interest, domain name registrants and end-users 

 

 

Services for registrants are an important baby step, as ICANN may have finally woken up -- after how many years? -- to the fact that it is registrants, not registrars or registries, that are the source of both its finances and legitimacy. Time will tell if these are just platitudes or lead-ups to real action.

 

Just wake me up when such attention extends to end users -- for instance, when PICs are taken seriously, involve impacted communities and evoke real penalty if contravened. Or when watchdogs such as Garth indicate that domain abuse is indeed under control. Or when the established industry is prevented from impeding real community and global-south participation in top-level domains. Or when domain speculation, that impedes innovation and needlessly extracts value from the Internet ecosystem, is confronted. 

 

Based on many personal conversations I can confirm that trust is at an all-time low outside the bubble, and this is a factor in why the TLD expansion is sputtering so badly (while, of course, further expansion is contemplated). Then again, the trend has been unfortunately too predictable, as those of us who opposed ICANN's path to date have witnessed.

 

ICANN has dug itself an extremely deep hole. I welcome these first few shovel-fuls of dirt, but it's a long way back to solid ground. Education programs alone will not suffice, ESPECIALLY if such programs are seen as justification rather than explanation.

 

Those of us with some history here can easily recall the same hope-and-change sentiments expressed during previous regime changes. I genuinely hope, for ICANN's sake, that history does not repeat.

 

Specifically, I await the pronouncement that ICANN will freeze all existing work on (and financing of) subsequent rounds of TLDs until existing issues with registrants and end-users are addressed. At very least, a Charter of Registrant Rights -- a concept older than my tenure within ICANN -- needs to be asserted for this claimed change of direction to be taken seriously.

 

Let's see if -- this time, for once -- the good words turn to action.

 

Cheers,

Evan

 

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