<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Hi, Carlton.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">If the ALAC and At-Large would like to see real movement on this, I suggest that the ALAC prepare a short and focused issues/discussion paper on the related topic of public interest and consumer trust for a discussion with the Board. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Best regards,</span><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Rinalia </span></div></div><div><br>On Apr 15, 2016, at 12:01 AM, Carlton Samuels <<a href="mailto:carlton.samuels@gmail.com">carlton.samuels@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">My response to the matter of the Chairman of the Board's response to the GNSO Council re ICANN's responsibility in context as guardian of the [global] public interest vs. Bruce [Tonkin's] remarks at Marrakech on same matter seems apropos here. It is extracted hereunder.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">-------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.4px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Seems to me he's 'walking it back' towards the safe harbour outlined by Bruce. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">I would frame a response on " <i>(v) engaging in any other related lawful activity in furtherance of items (i) through (iv)</i>.”</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">In my view and in this context, arguments stemming definition of the 'global public interest' tend to instantiate sophism. We have established the causes for this business of 'coordination' claimed as mission for ICANN; it is to make the DNS space exploitable for the many uses already identified. Add to these - channeling the descriptives of the myths from elsewhere - those yet 'invisible and unknown'. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">In my view any matter that undercuts the security and stability tra la la - the instances i) thru iv) quoted so often - of the DNS, that is to say, erode/reduce/tax consumer/user trust in the DNS, is inimical to the [global] public interest and are, in reason and judgment, targets of 'lawful' activity to reduce/suppress/remove said instances and threats. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">If this does not clearly establish ICANN's duty of care - and the duty to demonstrate care in as many ways as necessary! - I cannot think what else would.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">-Carlton</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">==============================</span><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature">Carlton A Samuels<br>Mobile: 876-818-1799<br><i><font color="#33CC00">Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround</font></i><br>=============================</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Rinalia Abdul Rahim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rinalia.abdulrahim@gmail.com" target="_blank">rinalia.abdulrahim@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Blog written </span><span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">by Allen Grogan - could </span><span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">be of interest to the ALAC on</span><span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> registrant issues.</span><br><div><div><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">See <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-is-not-the-internet-content-police" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-is-not-the-internet-content-police</a></span></font><br></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Best regards,</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Rinalia</font></div></div>
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