[NCUC-DISCUSS] Important article about Whois and accreditation

[Zakir Syed]

 Very interesting issues indeed. 

The point 2 below reminds me of the "China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology -MIIT's license requirement for TLD's to operate in China. In other words, national policies for registries and registrars to be able to do business in China. Popular extensions like .COM, .ORG or country codes like .CO or .ME have been asked in the past to comply with the MIIT license requirement. See for example .co getting the MIIT's approval yesterday - June 27. 

Best, 
Zakir


   On Monday, June 25, 2018, 7:45:39 AM GMT+5, Mueller, Milton L <milton at gatech.edu> wrote:  
 
 Dear Zhou Heng Sorry I just saw this message. It raises some interesting issues but I do not have time to address them as we head into the ICANN meeting. I will find time to do so later 

Milton L MuellerProfessor, School of Public PolicyGeorgia Institute of Technology
On Jun 21, 2018, at 07:02, socata <socata at ruc.edu.cn> wrote:


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 ofInternet 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.
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Zhou HengPh.d CandidateRenmin 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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