[NCUC-DISCUSS] Proposals for Rightscon

[Raoul Plommer]

Alright! It's been extended! *phew* :)

-Raoul

On 25 November 2016 at 16:31, farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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