[NCSG-Discuss] Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) draft published

[Wendy Seltzer]

I seconded Jeff Neuman's request that we discuss this on the Council's
agenda next week. NCSG might also want to ask for a briefing from ICANN
staff -- and from the Registrars -- to answer questions we might have in
preparing for public comments.

--Wendy

On 03/08/2013 11:11 AM, Robin Gross wrote:
> Thanks, Mary, I just saw the Registrars statement on this issue this
> morning and was pretty shocked by ICANN's latest move toward
> unilateralism (a very troubling trend) with staff's brand new RAA
> demands at this late hour.  ICANN has been moving away from "bottom up"
> multistakeholderism at the same time that it trumpets such a model at
> the ITU and elsewhere.  ICANN staff/board can't continue to claim ICANN
> is bottom-up while it reserves for itself the right to make all decisions.
> 
> Robin
> 
> 
> On Mar 8, 2013, at 7:59 AM, Mary.Wong at LAW.UNH.EDU wrote:
> 
>> http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/proposed-raa-07mar13-en.htm
>>
>> Besides the draft Registrant Rights & Responsibility (R3) document
>> that has already been discussed on this list, there are several other
>> issues that may be of concern/interest to NCSG members, including the
>> overlap with the changes currently being proposed to the new gTLD
>> Registry Agreement in light of the whole "public interest" issue
>> around new gTLDs. Note that the law enforcement agencies' requests
>> that dominated earlier public discussions of the RAA were already
>> folded into the draft before February, which is when the last round of
>> negotiations between the Registrars and ICANN took place.
>>
>> The Registrars' Negotiating Team don't seem happy with ICANN releasing
>> the draft at this point, interpreting that to mean that as far as
>> ICANN is concerned this means negotiations are, effectively, over.
>> Here's their official statement: 
>> http://www.internetnews.me/2013/03/08/registrar-negotiating-team-issues-statement-on-raa/
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Mary
>>
>> Mary W S Wong
>> Professor of Law
>> Director, Franklin Pierce Center for IP
>> Chair, Graduate IP Programs
>> UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL OF LAW
>> Two White Street
>> Concord, NH 03301
>> USA
>> Email: mary.wong at law.unh.edu
>> Phone: 1-603-513-5143
>> Webpage: http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.php
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>>
>>
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