[ALAC] PIR and Dot Org

[Maureen Hilyard]

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200105_hilyard_has_a_historic_chance_to_activate_icann_at_large/

Well that is certainly forcing our hand to take some action. But with
arrows flying in all sorts of directions it has been difficult to know
which one to follow, and I note there has been a break in the conversations
on this topic.

Interesting and very timely that Roberto raised the .org issue again in an
earlier email today. I started a response until JZ reminded us that the
thread was about .com

I agree with Roberto's approach  - that we should focus on our role as the
voice of At-Large end-users and offer some creative advice on how we might
influence the behaviour of PIR and any future decisions they make that will
impact on .org end-users. PIR/Ethos already presented a webinar and said
all the right things.. but how can we be assured that they will stick to
what they said that they would do in the future? Who will monitor this on
behalf of ordinary end-users? Who will be represented on the Stewardship
Council?

At the same time we may also need to advise the ICANN Board about how they
might deal with the ICANN-PIR/Ethos contract - especially Roberto's
recommendation of some commitment from ICANN that ethical behaviour towards
.org end-users will be built into it.

We are aware that the Board is looking into every legal issue relating to
how they can deal with matters that are being raised by letters that are
flowing their way. We don't need to add more of the same.

While i think it might be seen to be a simplistic approach, I believe that
we should stick to what our job is and focus on advice to the Board and to
PIR- but lets try to be creative about how we advise them, looking at the
impacts on end-users from all perspectives.

My 2c
M


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