<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Aug 21, 2016, at 8:25 AM, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" class="">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="moz-cite-prefix" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On Tuesday 16 August 2016 11:00 PM, John Curran wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote cite="mid:EB807E78-B23E-4735-A6A5-D6EA0CBB4275@istaff.org" type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">On Aug 16, 2016, at 1:22 PM, parminder <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" class="">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">As I said, most democratic governments of the world have laws for access to public information. Take India's Right to Information Act for instance. Wikipedia information on it is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Information_Act,_2005" class="">here</a>, and here is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Information_Act,_2005" class="">the actual text</a>. The US also has very good laws in this regard, to which you can get easy access. Over 95 countries have some kind of freedom of information laws ( see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_information_laws_by_country">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_information_laws_by_country</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) and I think most of them have better transparency laws than what ICANN adheres to…</blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>Please be specific. ICANN already has a "Documentary Information Disclosure Policy”,</div><div class="">and to the extent you believe it needs to be changed, it would be good to hear how.</div></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">John, I have been as specific as I can. </span></div></blockquote><br class=""><div>Again, please cite the specific changes to ICANN’s practices that you believe this </div><div>group should consider in its work.</div><div><br class=""></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I am not clear what is the 'community's' plan regarding this. Does this group share the expectation that at the end of the transition process, ICANN will adopt information disclosure policies of the same level as that of mature democracies today (I give the public information regimes of India and US as specific examples)? If not, why so?</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">John, it is your turn to be specific :) </span></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>If you believe that changes ICANN’s information disclosure practices are necessary,</div><div>please specify the changes that you wish to see. I do not have direct experience in</div><div>making use of ICANN’s information disclosure practices, nor am I recommending that</div><div>any changes be made, but you apparently are seeking that some changes be made </div><div>without actually detailing what these changes should be. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>/John</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Disclaimer: my views alone.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>