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Re: [council] Proposed amendment to BCUC motion


Mike Rodenbaugh wrote:

Ross please should be precise ASAP about the contract provisions he
proposes Council to suggest be eliminated.

Council does not typically deal with the level of detail that you propose Mike. In this case, I would foresee that if this motion is successful that staff would prepare an information brief consisting of this and other data that would facilitate the implementation of the motion.

> And please advise when and
> where this outcome was ever discussed in an ICANN public forum.

I am not exactly certain of the genesis of the proposal, but it is the subject of a paper authored by Avri and similar to an idea circulated through the GA by Danny Younger. I am certain you could find more information on the notion by reviewing the transcripts of the relevant meetings over the last year or so.


Otherwise I think it is inappropriate for us to consider this motion,
since the presented solution -- to a very important and long debated
issue -- has not been debated substantially by the wider community,
including several Working Groups designed to discuss the issues.  To
consider such a solution at Council would discredit the premise that
ICANN is a bottom-up organization focused on consensus-based
policymaking.

Again, I think you are confused about my proposal. Nothing I propose threatens ICANN's legitimacy as a consensus-based, bottom-up policy making organization. In fact, I believe my proposal furthers its legitimacy in this area. Specifically, my proposal deals with a series of requirements that are in fact *not* ICANN policy, yet we proceed with this status quo as if it has the support of the community simply because "this is the way its always been". My proposals recognizes this fact and allows us the opportunity to clear the way for real consensus based policy by eliminating the arbitrary determinations set forth in those contracts. This will allow the community the opportunity to come to the table and discuss the issue with the benefit of a clean slate, if it desires. And if there is consensus that there should be a policy-based means to provide and manage the Whois services, then we can initiate a PDP to find that common-ground and implement binding policy.



We should focus on the incremental consensus that has been reached, and
next steps to an implementable Consensus Policy.

What incremental consensus is that? None of the IP lobby that I'm aware of supports the OPOC proposal and continues to view it as problematic even in light of the tangled mess of proposed changes that the captured working group has tabled. Furthermore, even those that did initially support the recommendations of the working group initially, for instance the banking sector, have pulled back from their support due to their failure to broaden the scope of the OPOC proposal sufficiently to ensure their version of unfettered access to personal data.

There is no consensus on these proposals.

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Regards,

Ross Rader
Director, Retail Services
Tucows Inc.

http://www.domaindirect.com
t. 416.538.5492



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