[NCUC-DISCUSS] Proposals for Rightscon

[farzaneh badii]

Hi NCUC members,

Rightscon deadline for proposal submission is on 5th December, and we need
to draft a couple of proposals to talk about issues that NCUC finds
relevant at this point.

 NCUC organized a session at RightsCon 2016 in San Francisco. I think a
good opportunity.

Here is the website: http://rightscon.org/

I have three suggestions and welcome other suggestions relevant to NCUC's
mission, and edits and comments on these proposals to be submitted.  We
should only submit one proposal as NCUC and the final description should go
into more detail.

*Proposal 1. Jurisdictional issues *and domain name administration - we
will talk about how ICANN's jurisdiction affects domain name policies and
if it restricts access to applying for new gTLDs as well as affecting
domain name rights.

*Proposal 2. Adopting Multistakeholder Processes on the Internet: The Case
of ICANN*

ICANN is a private corporation that makes policies affecting domain name
registrants globally. Unlike some other Internet corporations and platforms
that take decisions unilaterally, ICANN uses a multistakeholder process for
policymaking. Multistakeholder governance is a positive aspect of ICANN
governance process. But sometimes there might be a circumvention of a
process in generating the policies which might hamper the multistakeholder
nature of ICANN governance. Considering the positive and negative aspects
of ICANN's governance mechanism, the session will address the following
question:  Can ICANN's multistakeholder model be used on other platforms
and even social platforms to govern their process?

*Proposal 3. Content Regulation and private  ordering at Internet
governance institutions*

Private ordering is the generation, implementation and enforcement of
policies by a private entity.   It has been a phenomenon on the Internet
since the governments' oversight was weak or non-existent. Private ordering
is used in internet governance institutions such as ICANN which mainly
carry out their policies and implement them through a multistakeholder
process and contractual agreements. Such agreements and policies must not
lead ICANN to become a content regulator on the Internet. This session will
discuss: What is content regulation on the Internet and does ICANN's
policies affect the content on the Internet. If it does how so and why and
how can we prevent ICANN from having such a role.

-- 
Farzaneh
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