[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] another document that might be of interest

Volker Greimann vgreimann at key-systems.net
Fri Oct 27 09:41:17 UTC 2017


I absolutely agree with the basic premise of the statement.


Am 27.10.2017 um 01:57 schrieb consult at cgomes.com:
>
> Does anyone disagree with this: “the common goal here is to create 
> policy that enables as robust and fully featured RDS as is possible 
> without violating the law”?
>
> Chuck
>
> *From:* gnso-rds-pdp-wg-bounces at icann.org 
> [mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg-bounces at icann.org] *On Behalf Of *Greg Shatan
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 24, 2017 12:13 PM
> *To:* Rubens Kuhl <rubensk at nic.br>
> *Cc:* GNSO RDS PDP <gnso-rds-pdp-wg at icann.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [gnso-rds-pdp-wg] another document that might be of 
> interest
>
> The following statement troubles me greatly:
>
> The real battle here is between registrants in one side, and affected 
> parties in the other. The balance always favoured affected parties 
> from the beginning, and people got used to it; now that new laws are 
> moving the needle towards registrants, there is resistance among those 
> that got used to being favoured.
>
> This is a false dichotomy for several reasons.  First, the "affected 
> parties" are, in many cases, engaged in consumer protection, 
> anti-abuse (of many different types), anti-counterfeiting and other 
> activities that benefit registrants -- and more broadly, the security, 
> stability of the Internet and trust in the Internet. Second, the 
> "registrants" aren't really in the battle. We have people advocating 
> for greatly expanded privacy protections, but they are not 
> representing the registrants.  They may sincerely believe the speak 
> for the registrants, or believe they know what's best for the 
> registrants -- or may just be privacy advocates. Whether privacy 
> benefits the vast majority of registrants -- and whether the benefits 
> outweigh the costs -- is very much an open question.  (We've heard 
> about some edge cases through anecdotes, but that is not indicative of 
> anything but bits of the edge.)
>
> Setting "affected parties" against "registrants" is likely to keep us 
> mired in an unproductive "locked-horns" mode. Maybe it benefits the 
> privacy camp to delay until things fall apart, but that is not 
> governance, and I truly hope that is not the agenda (I choose to 
> believe we are just in the "messy and slow" mode of 
> multistakeholderism -- unfortunately time and mess are not our friends 
> here.)
>
> If the common goal here is to create policy that enables as robust and 
> fully featured RDS as is possible without violating the law, then we 
> could have a common goal.
>
> Figuring out how to deal with GDPR and what it really requires and 
> looking for ways to live with it are not elements of denial.  They are 
> elements of analysis.  Saying that GDPR is going to throw a big, wet 
> blanket over everything is not analysis -- it is an attempt to wield 
> the GDPR as the latest weapon in a long battle that has occupied ICANN 
> (and many other spaces) for a long time. If we could turn our 
> collective wisdom to problem solving, we could make some real headway 
> here.
>
> Greg
>
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Rubens Kuhl <rubensk at nic.br 
> <mailto:rubensk at nic.br>> wrote:
>
>
>     > On Oct 22, 2017, at 11:38 AM, John Bambenek via gnso-rds-pdp-wg
>     <gnso-rds-pdp-wg at icann.org <mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg at icann.org>> wrote:
>     >
>     > I would argue that their views are uninformed on other points of
>     view or other changes that could be made that would satisfy their
>     objectives which is similar but has important differences. So I
>     disagree we are at the point we are violating EU law.
>
>     Unfortunately we are already violating EU law. We are only not
>     been sanctioned for it, because the law specify an adjusting
>     period. Just read all the legal memos we already got.
>
>     > EU DPAs may never change their mind.
>
>     EU courts are a viable way to make government officials change
>     their mind, if you think that's a matter of interpretation.
>
>     > I’ll just get US law changed so that US entities offering
>     domains have to list ownership information which means most if not
>     all of the gTLDs I care about if not ICANN also.
>
>     You know that Verisign, Facebook and Amazon already have
>     subsidiaries in EU, right ? And they can move their contracts
>     there if being in the US becomes a competitive handicap ?
>
>     > We aren’t there yet because the DPAs are only starting to hear
>     from us. Until now these discussions were populated by ICANN and
>     registrars/registries who want whois to go away anyway.
>
>     Frankly, registries and registrars couldn't care less about WHOIS.
>     It's just a cost of doing business. The real battle here is
>     between registrants in one side, and affected parties in the
>     other. The balance always favoured affected parties from the
>     beginning, and people got used to it; now that new laws are moving
>     the needle towards registrants, there is resistance among those
>     that got used to being favoured.
>
>
>     >
>     > This solitary focus on EU law presupposes that people believe
>     that of the laws of the ~200 countries in the world, it is EU law
>     that should be the controlling force of internet governance. Is
>     that what you are saying?
>
>
>     EU privacy law is just the first of many laws pointing in a
>     similar direction, so it's not just a matter of following one
>     jurisdiction, is about following a trend.
>
>
>     Rubens
>
>
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