[NCUC-DISCUSS] Meeting with ICANN CEO

[Kathy Kleiman]

Hi Farzi,

I am glad that you have this meeting. I would like to know why the 
efforts of the Consensus Policy continue to be undermined by ICANN 
Counsel and Staff? For example, we negotiated limited protections for 
trademark owners in New gTLDs. They were designed to prevent the massive 
cybersquatting that trademark owners feared in the roll-out of hundreds 
of new gTLDs in a short period of time.

(I should note that the mass chaos never occurred; nor the mass 
cybersquatting.)

But ICANN Counsel and staff are unilaterally extending these policies 
into areas they never belonged - into the legacy gTLDs. NCSG and CSG 
filed a joint objection (courtesy of Ed Morris and Phil Corwin) 
questioning the extension of the URS (Uniform Rapid Suspension) to older 
gTLDs in their contract negotiations - a Consensus Policy extended 
without rhyme or reason, public input nor discussion.

We are seeing similar work which ignores and shunts aside Consensus 
Policies - particularly those balances and compromises that protect 
noncommercial registrants and especially noncommercial speech, free 
expression and trademark fair use online - in other areas as well. It 
makes it very difficult and frustrating for volunteers to spend hundreds 
of hours negotiating policies that are then thrown out, limited or 
circumvented by other means available to ICANN.

I'm happy to discuss this with you further. I think this would be a 
great area for discussion with ICANN's CEO.
Best,
Kathy


On 2/6/2017 7:25 AM, farzaneh badii wrote:
> Dear NCUC members,
>
> I will have a 1:1 meeting with the ICANN CEO next week. If you would 
> like me to discuss a topic with him, please share it on this list by 
> 10 Feb. Since this is a 30 minute talk I cannot cover everything but I 
> will try my best to at least mention some of the suggested topic briefly.
>
> Best
>
>
>
>
> Farzaneh
>
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