[ispcp] WG: [council] FW: [Soac-infoalert] ICANN Clarifies its Position in Response to Purported Threats Posed by Children-Related New gTLDs - ICANN

Tue Apr 11 05:54:29 UTC 2017

FYI

Best regards

Wolf-Ulrich Knoben

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Von: James M. Bladel <jbladel at godaddy.com <mailto:jbladel at godaddy.com> >
Betreff: [council] FW: [Soac-infoalert] ICANN Clarifies its Position in 
Response to Purported Threats Posed by Children-Related New gTLDs - ICANN
Datum: 11.04.2017, 00:47 Uhr
An: GNSO Council List <council at gnso.icann.org
<mailto:council at gnso.icann.org> >

Councilors  -

Please see this announcement / statement from ICANN that was released 
Friday.

Thank you,

J.

From: <soac-infoalert-bounces at icann.org> on behalf of David Olive 
<david.olive at icann.org>
Date: Friday, April 7, 2017 at 15:02

Subject: [Soac-infoalert] ICANN Clarifies its Position in Response to 
Purported Threats Posed by Children-Related New gTLDs - ICANN

https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-clarifies-its-position-in-response-to-purported-threats-posed-by-children-related-new-gtlds
<https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-clarifies-its-position-in-response-to-purported-threats-posed-by-children-related-new-gtlds>

ICANN Blog by Akram Atallah

ICANN Clarifies its Position in Response to Purported Threats Posed by 
Children-Related New gTLDs

Recently, the Children’s Charities Coalition on Internet Safety raised 
concerns that new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) may become new grounds 
for the functioning and distributing of child abuse content. ICANN wants to 
confirm its position.

Child abuse and child pornography is a crime. It is illegal and as such 
there are many appropriate, already available, forms of law enforcement 
mechanisms to address issues like these. All ICANN’s contracted parties are 
required to abide by the laws of countries they operate in and laws that 
address these areas.

This is not an issue ICANN takes lightly. The organization’s authority, 
with respect to registries and registrars, is derived solely by contract, 
and ICANN acts as an administrator of those contractual arrangements. There 
are safeguards in the new gTLD Registry Agreements (RA) related to 
highly-regulated or sensitive strings which were incorporated, as 
identified by the Governmental Advisory Committee
<https://gacweb.icann.org/display/gacweb/Governmental+Advisory+Committee> 
(GAC).

As an organization, ICANN is governed by a bottom up, consensus-driven 
multistakeholder model. The ICANN organization cannot unilaterally impose 
guidelines or requirements on registries, registrars or other stakeholders 
in a top-down manner. Policy recommendations, as per ICANN’s bylaws (see 
section 6.1)
<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en#VI>  are 
developed and refined by the ICANN community through its Supporting 
Organizations and influenced by Advisory Committees – all comprised of 
volunteers from across the world – in a "bottom-up," multistakeholder, open 
and transparent process. Each Supporting Organization has its own specific 
policy development process.

For anything unlawful, we rely on courts and governmental regulatory 
authorities to police illegal activity. As an organization, ICANN does not 
require registries to regulate web content, but some registries have 
voluntarily promised the community that they would do so and have asked 
ICANN to make these commitments enforceable via the registry agreement.

ICANN is cognizant of the seriousness of this issue and others, which is 
why we have been working closely with the public safety community, 
including law enforcement, to ensure that they understand and make correct 
use of policies and processes. ICANN and the Governmental Advisory 
Committee
<https://gacweb.icann.org/display/gacweb/Governmental+Advisory+Committee> 
’s (GAC) Public Safety Working Group
<https://gacweb.icann.org/display/gacweb/GAC+Public+Safety+Working+Group> 
have been working together to create awareness on how to participate in 
ICANN and engage effectively in the GAC and ICANN’s policy making 
processes. One of the main areas of work has been capacity building within 
law enforcement agencies and the review of the Domain Name System (DNS) and 
its impact on public safety.

Additionaly, ICANN takes steps to remind all new gTLD registry operators of 
the Governmental Advisory Committee’s view expressed in Buenos Aires 
Communiqué on the importance of protecting children and their rights, 
consistent with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. (For more on 
this important topic, see entry #13 in Annex 1 to ICANN NGPC Resolution No. 
2014.02.05.NG01 at 
http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-new-gtld-annex-1-05feb14-en.pdf
<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-new-gtld-annex-1-05feb14-en.pdf> 
.

ICANN’s mission is to ensure the stable and secure operation of the 
Internet's unique identifier systems. As a global organization, we aim to 
realize our mission through our multistakeholder model, which depends on 
open, inclusive, transparent and accountable engagement, participation and 
policy development contributions from all stakeholders, ranging from 
businesses to governments to individual Internet users.

David A. Olive
Senior Vice President

Policy Development Support
Managing Director, ICANN Regional Headquarters –Istanbul
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

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