[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] IMPORTANT: Notes from RDS PDP WG Meeting - 12 December

[Sam Lanfranco]

Lisa, et. al.,

While I had to miss the meeting today I have read the transcript, and 
responded to the poll. I added cryptic comments there but I wanted to 
expand on them a bit here, in the fewest words possible. \

My comment here has to do with our understanding of the word 
"management" in "Domain Name Management". Thinking of Domain Name 
Management as a "black box" within which sits the registrant, managing 
with no outward accountability (with regard to issues other than content 
or illegal behavior) is too narrow a meaning for the the term Domain 
Name Management. We need to consider thinking of managing more in a 
(narrow) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) sense.

By "narrow" I mean not dealing with the social issues agenda implied by 
CSR but (a) being reachable in some fashion for management 
accountability, and (b) there being some place to go (abuse contact) 
when there are unresolved issues about how the Domain Name is Managed. 
There are areas other than content and legal issues where contact may be 
a appropriate with regard to management. I understand why registrars 
would prefer to get minimal email to an abuse@ account, and why some 
registrants would prefer managing from within a black box, but surely 
their must be some scope for persons to raise issues with regard to 
Domain Management, from the outside, and possibly as part of a Domain 
Name Social Responsibility obligation. Or, am I just whistling in the 
wind here?

Sam L (from a civil society perspective)