<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">TBH I care less about the registrants in this matter than about end-users being denied access to important Internet destinations. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">There is also a related issue here in that the rationale for this measure is to remove domains engaging in end-user abuse (phishing, malware, etc) and illegal activity. So perhaps the proposed change may be desirable in principle but flawed in execution.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">Anyway, thanks for getting involved in it.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">- Evan</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default"></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 1:22 PM Jonathan Zuck via CPWG <<a href="mailto:cpwg@icann.org">cpwg@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="auto">Seriously, we just assigned two people to read the agreement, yesterday, and report back to the CPWG.<span></span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 20, 2023 12:12:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> CPWG <<a href="mailto:cpwg@icann.org" target="_blank">cpwg@icann.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CPWG] Something of actual importance to end-users</font>
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<a href="https://freespeech.com/2023/04/19/red-alert-icann-and-verisign-proposal-would-allow-any-government-in-the-world-to-seize-domain-names/" target="_blank">https://freespeech.com/2023/04/19/red-alert-icann-and-verisign-proposal-would-allow-any-government-in-the-world-to-seize-domain-names/</a></div>
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Let's briefly put aside the boasting about ALAC's incremental involvement in the trivial agendas set by ICANN's vested interests. Here's a real example of an issue that can negatively affect end-users. The aims of the proposed modification may be laudable,
but there's too much room for arbitrariness and too much potential to curb political speech unwanted by a government.<br>
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BTW ... Why was this not already flagged by ALAC as cause for concern? Why did I have to find out about this in the media rather than from the inside. Was ALAC intending to ignore it?<br>
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This is EXACTLY what I'm talking about. ALAC is obsessed with the trivial and the self-absorbed, but asleep during the issues that actually affect the constituency we're supposed to serve.<br>
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Does ALAC have what it takes to fight for the public interest on something that actually matters?<br>
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Is it capable of balancing the various intertwining issues? If the CPWG meets on this issue I'll be there.<br>
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<div style="text-align:left">Evan Leibovitch, <span style="font-size:12.8px">Toronto Canada</span></div>
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