[NCUC-DISCUSS] Session on termination of domains for hate speech at ICANN 60

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 08/19/2017 05:13 AM, James Gannon wrote:

> Being honest, I’m not sure of the relevance to ICANN here.
>
> If we were at a Cloudflare conference I would agree as noted there is
> no process in that space.
>
>  
>
> But in ICANN space, there is policy which is being followed to the
> letter. There is no denial of access to infrastructure occurring here.
> There are private companies refusing service, as is their right, and
> ICANN policy on domain transfers within the 60 day window being
> applied. I don’t see where the discussion in the ICANN sphere is
> needed. No registry has blanket denied access to their registry, no
> RIR has denied access to IP space, and ICANN has not issued any policy
> edicts on the topic.
>
>  
>
> I personally wouldn’t support the hosting of such a discussion, as
> most of the unanswered questions exist outside the ICANN space and
> thus this meeting wouldn’t be appropriate venue.
>

I can't really understand why you would say that.  I'm on the Review of
all RPMs working group, and one of the issues being discussed there (in
its own subgroup) is the impact of the registries' and registrars' own 
terms of service that go beyond their responsibilities to ICANN, for
example the Donuts DPML which creates a layer of trademark protection on
top of the formal ICANN processes.  Another example was the Healthy
Domains Initiative, where we kicked up a stink about the PIR proposal
for a kind of "UDRP for copyright".

This is basically the same type of discussion.  I can't imagine how it
could be outside the scope of NCUC, unless we are taking a pretty myopic
view of its mission.

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