[AT-Review] Another complaint ...

[Fabio Colasanti]

Dear all,

 

Many will have seen this already, but I am circulating this item received
from the INTERNET GOVERNANCE PROJECT just in case.




Outsourcing censorship: ICANN, Inc. insists on it!
<http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=51633710&f=175425&u=22683210&c=3920302> 


ICANN's staff is trying to reject key consensus recommendations
<http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/175425/22683210/3920302/http://gnso.icann.
org/issues/new-gtlds/report-rec6-cwg-21sep10-en>  regarding the censorship
of new top level domains
<http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/175425/22683210/3920302/http://blog.intern
etgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2010/6/23/4560694.html> . The staff's
<http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/175425/22683210/3920302/http://www.icann.o
rg/en/topics/new-gtlds/explanatory-memo-morality-public-order-12nov10-en.pdf
> "explanatory memo," which tells us why it is trying to discard the
decisions of a Cross-community Working Group, show a complete lack of
interest in the freedom of expression implications of the new gTLD objection
process. It focuses instead on how to lower legal and financial risks to the
corporation. Outsourcing the decision to censor new top level domains to a
"dispute resolution service provider" is considered by ICANN's staff to be a
very important part of a "risk mitigation strategy." "Without outside
dispute resolution," the staff wrote, "ICANN would have to re-evaluate risks
and program costs overall." What a startling admission! A conference call
tomorrow (Monday, November 15) may be able to alter this. But the staff
position fuels many of the concerns IGP and others have expressed regarding
ICANN, Inc.'s status as an international institution. ICANN Inc.'s policy
process looks out for its own interest as a corporation first and foremost,
and lacks accountability because there is no requirement to follow the
results of its own vaunted bottom-up
processes.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IGPBlogCombined/~4/k8ng5ePviKo

 

 

All the best,

 

Fabio

 

Fabio Colasanti

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fabio at colasanti.it

 

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