[CCWG-ACCT] Fwd: FW: ICANN Board Comments on Third CCWG-Accountability Draft Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations

[Bruce Tonkin]

Hello Malcolm,


>>  CCWG wants to draw a bright line between the area where ICANN is supposed to develop policy (and enforce that policy through contracts) and the area where we believe ICANN should not have a policy. And we want this line to be enforceable by the IRP.

The Board supports that concept.


>>  What we have been discussing is whether ICANN should be allowed to use its authority in DNS policy, and the contractual chain it holds with Registries, Registrars and Registrants, to seek to control what content domain registrants may or may not publish on web sites (or other such systems).

>>  Broadly speaking, we think that for ICANN to seek to limit what people are allowed to put on web sites is on the wrong side of that line.

We agree.


>>  Nonetheless we need to know, does the Board support that basic idea?

We do.

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin