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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><span style='color:#3F4A50'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><span style='color:#3F4A50'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><span style='color:#3F4A50'>Many will have seen this already, but I am circulating this item received from the INTERNET GOVERNANCE PROJECT just in case.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='line-height:12.75pt'><a name=3></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=51633710&f=175425&u=22683210&c=3920302" title="external link">Outsourcing censorship: ICANN, Inc. insists on it! </a><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='line-height:12.75pt'>ICANN’s staff is trying to reject key <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/175425/22683210/3920302/http://gnso.icann.org/issues/new-gtlds/report-rec6-cwg-21sep10-en">consensus recommendations</a> regarding the <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/175425/22683210/3920302/http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2010/6/23/4560694.html">censorship of new top level domains</a>. The staff's <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/175425/22683210/3920302/http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/explanatory-memo-morality-public-order-12nov10-en.pdf">"explanatory memo,"</a> 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.<img border=0 width=1 height=1 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.gif@01CB896B.F40D4F10" alt="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IGPBlogCombined/~4/k8ng5ePviKo"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>All the best,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fabio<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR-BE>Fabio </span><span lang=FR-BE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Colasanti<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR-BE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>36, rue des Patriotes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR-BE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>B-1000 Bruxelles<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR-BE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>tel. +32 2 736 26 16<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR-BE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>mob. +32 488 14 24 05<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR-BE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>fabio@colasanti.it<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>