[CCWG-ACCT] Board comments on the Mission statement

[Greg Shatan]

Malcolm,

Do we need an additional clause that prohibits the "blue shirt" policy?  I
would contend that the basic statement about ICANN's mission is sufficient
to prohibit such a policy.

Greg

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Malcolm Hutty <malcolm at linx.net> wrote:

>
>
> > On 20 Nov 2015, at 17:07, Mueller, Milton L <milton at gatech.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Arguably, this the UDRP is ok because it deals with domain names, but
> similar things could be put into the contracts that, to use a deliberately
> silly and therefore non-distracting example, required people to wear blue
> shirts on Thursdays, on pain of losing their domains.
>
> Milton,
>
> This clause would not prevent ICANN from adopting a policy that all
> registrants within a particular gTLD (or all of them) must wear blue shirts
> on Thursdays, nor from enforcing such a prohibition through the RA/RAA.
>
> I would prefer a clause that did prohibit such a policy, but I cannot find
> a form of words to which others will agree; every effort so far has been
> shot down as allegedly too likely to prohibit things that I agree ICANN
> should do (like WHOIS, UDRP, or regulating the registration process).
>
> We therefore have a compromise text. This is not comprehensive in
> prohibiting to ICANN the full range of regulatory behaviour that I think it
> should really be restrained from engaging in, but it does deal with the
> most "high risk" area: attempting to regulate what is "done on the
> Internet", as in, what is done by software processes that accept Internet
> connections (or the content they process).
>
> I could live with that, in default of something better.
>
> Malcolm.
>
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