<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large">OCL:<br>As one of those of us who spent the time working the EWG detail, the immediacy of the frustrations working shifts on the PPSAI and WHOIS Conflicts WGs is indeed remarkable.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large">Take the WHOIS Conflicts and Waiver process. ICANN knows - or should know - that the RAA is conflicted with privacy laws in the several jurisdictions. Yet instead of dealing with the matter on a principled and comprehensive basis, it continues to apply one-by-one waivers to registrars for minding the law in their domiciled jurisdiction. This continuing situation beggars reason and good judgment. And is one of the issues the EWG's recommendations are intended to address.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large">That the solution is within the reach of anyone who even thinks of this for a few minutes is incontestable. But yet we insist.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large">Whenever I think of it, I recall the cartoon of Noah - he of that flood - in that [wooden] boat trying his damnedest to trap that woodpecker. We do it to ourselves.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large">-Carlton</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><br>==============================<br>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 Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ocl@gih.com" target="_blank">ocl@gih.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Dear Valentina,<br>
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thanks for this excellent contribution. <br>
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As you mention, the public comment period is open until end of
business day today... I really do not know why the ALAC comment
period also closes on the same day - but this is all coming in at
the very last moment.<br>
I have CC'ed Holly Raiche & Carlton Samuels (as well as ALAC
Chair Alan Greenberg & ALAC Policy Staff) to see if your
organisation's comments can be taken into account, perhaps with ALAC
asking for a few more days from Mary Wong in order to formulate a
response.<br>
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Alas I have no say in the matter / process or substance. :-)<br>
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Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier<br>
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ps. my thoughts about the matter of WHOIS Privacy & Proxy is
that WHOIS has become inappropriate for the task it is asked to
perform. I am flabbergasted that the work of the Expert Working
Group on gTLD Directory Services, published on
<a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/ewg-recommends-a-replacement-for-whois" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/news/blog/ewg-recommends-a-replacement-for-whois</a>
is actually not being taken into account. It would save a lot of
time from volunteers wasting time with WHOIS privacy/proxy now.<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 07/07/2015 17:46, Valentina Pavel
/ApTI wrote:<br>
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<div>Dear At-Large Community Members,<br>
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Please find attached ApTI's comment regarding ICANN's WHOIS
privacy/proxy services proposal. <br>
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We believe the new policy <span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">presents
a serious danger to freedom of speech, privacy and to the
rule of law on the Internet and we urge ICANN not to adopt
this proposal.<br>
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<div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We
are also working on publishing a summary of our comment.<br>
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<div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The
public comment period is open until </span><strong><span style="color:#ff0000"><a href="http://http://www.timeanddate.com/time/aboututc.html" target="_blank">7 Jul 2015 23:59 UTC.</a></span></strong></div>
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Asociația pentru Tehnologie și Internet - ApTI</span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span></span><br>
<a href="http://www.privacy.apti.ro" target="_blank">privacy.apti.ro</a> & <a href="http://apti.ro" target="_blank">apti.ro</a></span></div>
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