[LAC-Discuss] [LAC-ALS] FW: -- ICANN New gTLD Policy Up for Debate in Lisbon: Censorship and National Sovereignty at Issue -

jam at jacquelinemorris.com jam at jacquelinemorris.com
Wed Mar 28 16:32:04 EDT 2007 


   The ICANN Board will vote on it on Friday morning GMT.

   The report is from the other Civil Society group in ICANN, the NCUC.

   Jacqueline

   Google translation:El tablero de ICANN votará sobre él en el GMT de  
la mañana de viernes. El informe es del otro grupo civil en ICANN, el  
NCUC. Jacqueline

   Quoting Christian Hess Araya <chess at Poder-Judicial.go.cr>:

> ENGLISH: Wow, Carlton! At first, I was confused by the strong   
> wording of your message, but after reading Jacqueline's post I must   
> emphatically concur in that this has to be right up there among the   
> worst policy proposals in ICANN history! I would like to suggest   
> that you, as the LACRALO's Secretariat, draft and then distribute a   
> declaration in which we strongly condemn the proposal and call for   
> its repeal.
>
> ESPAÑOL: ¡Vaya, Carlton! Inicialmente me sentí confundido por el  
> fuerte lenguaje de tu mensaje, pero después de leer el de  
> Jacqueline, debo coincidir enfáticamente en que ésta debe ser una de  
> las peores propuestas de política de la historia de ICANN. Me  
> gustaría sugerir que, como Secretario de la LACRALO, prepares y  
> distribuyas un borrador de declaración en la que rechacemos  
> enérgicamente la propuesta y pidamos su desestimatoria.
>
>
> Msr. Christian Hess Araya
> Oficina: Tel. (506) 295-4721 * Fax (506) 295-3712 * Web:   
> www.poder-judicial.go.cr/salaconstitucional/
> Personal: Apdo. postal 239-1002 * Skype: chess-cr * Web:   
> www.hess-cr.com <http://www.hess-cr.com/>
> San José, Costa Rica
>
>
>
>    _____
>
> De: lac-als-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org   
> [mailto:lac-als-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] En nombre de   
> Carlton A Samuels
> Enviado el: miércoles 28 de marzo del 2007 08:03
> Para: lac-als at atlarge-lists.icann.org; 'LAC Discuss'
> Asunto: [LAC-ALS] FW: -- ICANN New gTLD Policy Up for Debate in   
> Lisbon:Censorship andNational Sovereignty at Issue -
>
>
>
> Dear Friends:
>
> I have forwarded the thread provided by our new ALAC Chair,   
> Jacqueline Morris for your advice and hopefully, discussion towards   
> a consensus from LACRALO on the several issues.  Very early in its   
> tenure, the Secretariat took the decision that it would seek to   
> report consensus rather than drive it.  However in the matter here   
> below, conscience trumps duty.
>
>
>
> I wish to associate myself in the strongest possible terms with the   
> position that advises ICANN to remain neutral on content issues, if   
> only because of my own personal loathing for anyone other than me   
> deciding what I may think, read or consume in the pursuit of   
> knowledge.  Furthermore, I abhor all and every attempt at  
> censorship  in whatever form.  And finally, I consider the attempt  
> to impose  extra-national or supranational oversight in this venture  
> as cynical  and is rightly condemned as a form of neo-imperialism.
>
>
>
> Carlton
>
>
>
> [Spanish Version]
>
>
>
> Amigos Todos:
>
> He adelantado el hilo proporcionado por nuestra nueva Chair de ALAC,  
> Jacqueline Morris para su consejo y optimistamente, la discusión  
> hacia un consenso de LACRALO en los varios asuntos. Muy temprano en  
> su ocupación, la Secretaría tomó la decisión que lo procuraría  
> informar el consenso antes que lo maneja. Sin embargo en el asunto  
> aquí abajo, la conciencia triunfa el deber.
>
>
>
> Deseo asociarme en los términos posibles más fuertes con la posición  
> que aconseja ICANN para quedarse neutral en asuntos contentos, si  
> solamente a causa de mi propio aborrecer personal para cualquiera  
> otro que yo decidiendo lo que puedo pensar, poder leer o puedo  
> consumir en el persecución del conocimiento. Además, aborrezco todo  
> y cada tentativa en la censura en cualquier forma. Y finalmente,  
> considero la tentativa para imponer el descuido extra-nacional o  
> supranacional en esta aventura como cínico y es condenado  
> correctamente como una forma del neo-imperialismo.
>
>
>
> Carlton
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The link to the latest draft of the GNSO Committee's report is here:
> http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/pdp-dec05-draft-fr.htm
>
> The link to the NCUC proposal is here:
>   http://www.ipjustice.org/ICANN/drafts/022207.html   
> <http://ipjustice.org/wp/2007/03/22/icann_gtld_policy_problems/>
>
> ======
>
> -- ICANN New gTLD Policy Up for Debate in Lisbon: Censorship and   
> National Sovereignty at Issue --
>
> 22 March 2007 - As ICANN's Board Meeting   
> http://www.icann.org/meetings/lisbon/ in Lisbon
> is about to kick-off, a number of important policy issues are on the agenda.
>
> One of the most hotly contested issues at ICANN is the current  
> draft  proposal regarding
> the introduction of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and its   
> impact on free
> expression and national sovereignty.
>
> While the latest (16 March 2007) draft proposal would no longer allow a
> single country to block a new gTLD string application for   
> non-technical reasons, it
> would allow any group of nations to block an application for a new   
> top-level domain for
> non-technical reasons.
>
> Recommendation 6 in the draft proposal still reads "Strings must  
> not  be contrary to
> generally accepted legal norms relating to morality and public order."
>
> But now, instead of any 1 country being able to block a string on a   
> subject it didn't
> like, any group of countries objecting to a string would be able to   
> kill the application.
>
> Why would the ICANN Board want to give this kind of control and   
> censorious powers to the  Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC)?   
> ICANN should stick to its technical mission and  remain   
> content-neutral in the allocation of new top-level domains and  
> leave  the politics  out of the formulations.
>
> And the proposed gTLD policy still operates under the fiction that   
> there are such
> accepted public policy and morality legal norms.
>
> The proposed gTLD policy is still a recipe for censorship and an   
> attack on national
> sovereignty. Why should the restrictions in any one country be   
> imposed upon the citizens
> of another country? No one has even attempted to provide a   
> justification for that.
>
> ICANN's Non-Commercial User's Constituency (NCUC) proposed
> http://www.ipjustice.org/ICANN/drafts/022207.html to reform the new   
> gTLD policy so that  national laws will govern what speech may be   
> permitted in a country, not ICANN policy.
> But that proposal was summarily swept aside.
>
> Former ICANN Board Member Michael Palage and current GNSO Council   
> Member Avri Doria have published a paper   
> http://ipjustice.org/ICANN/keep_core_neutral.pdf
> recommending that ICANN remain content-neutral and resist the path   
> of censorship in the
> introduction of new gTLDs.
>
> Concerned Netizens are encouraged to contact the ICANN Board and   
> their GAC Members to urge reform of the proposed policy. NCUC   
> prepared a sample letter to ICANN Board Members   
> http://ipjustice.org/wp/2007/03/22/letter_board_gtld and a sample   
> letter to GAC Members   
> http://ipjustice.org/wp/2007/03/22/letter_gac_gtlds to assist   
> Netizens in making their voices heard.
>
> The GNSO Committee's proposal still erroneously equates trademark   
> rights with rights to
> domain names. The draft proposal attempts to justify censorship in   
> the new gTLD space on
> the flaky rationale that trademark law does not permit the   
> registration of scandalous
> words. The Committee fails to recognize that a trademark is an   
> exclusive right to
> prevent others from using a word in commerce, and the policy they   
> are setting is whether
> anyone can use use a word at all in the new gTLD space. Big difference.
>
> Both the GNSO Committee on New gTLDs and the GAC will make policy   
> recommendations on the issue to the ICANN Board. The ICANN Board   
> will then vote on the policy recommendations.
> The ICANN Board would be smart to remain content-neutral and not   
> allow ICANN's technical mission to become muddled down in politics   
> by giving GAC any power to prevent a new string for non-technical   
> reasons. Nor should ICANN give itself any right to prevent a string   
> for non-technical reasons. Besides the fact that its censorship, it   
> will also
> create legal liability for ICANN.
>
> But the question remains open: Can ICANN stand-up to the GAC and   
> resist the urge to
> impose a policy of censorship in the new gTLD space?
>
> See related: NCUC Press Release of 2/27/7 "Power Grab: ICANN to   
> Become Internet's Word
> Police" http://ipjustice.org/wp/2007/02/27/icann-power-grab/
>
> The ICANN GAC representatives  are listed here:
> http://gac.icann.org/web/contact/reps/index.shtml
>
> The ICANN Board of Directors are listed here:   
> http://www.icann.org/general/board.html
> --
> Jacqueline A. Morris
> www.jacquelinemorris.com
>
>

-- 
Jacqueline A. Morris
www.jacquelinemorris.com

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