[NCUC-DISCUSS] Important article about Whois and accreditation

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Dear Milton,


Recently, I am writing an article in Chinese about the conflict between WHOIS and GDPR, in which Your book Networks and Stats: The Global Politics of Internet Governance gives me a lots of inspiration. In addition, I believe even in different languages, I share lots of viewpoint of your proposed article Let’s talk about WHOIS accreditation – Before it’s too late.
Tomorrow, I will give a speech about this issue in a seminar hosted in the China Foreign Affairs University (You may refer to the Chinese link for further details here: http://gjfx.cfau.edu.cn/art/2018/5/4/art_1842_65690.html) to talk about my article, and I hope maybe this article may be published at a journal in China very soon. 


There are some things I hope the community may notice:
1. ICANN's intellectual property protection rules like UDRP/URS is expensive, if the rights holder could not find whether the domain name owner is a legal rights holder or not, the rights holder may lack of interest to make a move for UDRP/URS.
2. ICANN's obey to GDPR is a very very bad example; tells the whole world that a nation's law can make ICANN to change its rule with a threatening high tickets. I would not be surprise that if some other country use some local law to force ICANN to change the rule they don't like in future.
3. The interim specification is ridiculous by put GDPR as a part of regulation. There are 200 countries in the world, and all of them may propose some local laws to protect the interest or fundamental rights of their citizens. Should ICANN add all those law in the article 4.2 of the  interim regulation? 


I will keep my research in this areas, and maybe next time I will try to give an article in english to further the discussion in this topic with NCUC members.

--
Zhou Heng
Ph.d Candidate
Renmin University of China



在 2018-06-16 05:44:10，"Mueller, Milton L" <milton at GATECH.EDU> 写道：
Would urge you all to read this.
https://www.internetgovernance.org/2018/06/15/lets-talk-about-whois-accreditation-before-its-too-late/
 
Dr. Milton Mueller
Professor, School of Public Policy
Georgia Institute of Technology
 
 
 







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