RE: [council] FW: Letter of support ICANN - NOC AUT

["Neuman, Jeff" <Jeff.Neuman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jonathan.

This flurry of letters is just the the beginning of what icann will see as the 
decision making becomes more top-down.  If ICANN is successful as getting a 
unilateral right to amend in any form in the registry and registrar agreements, 
every group will be lobbying the icann board, staff and everyone else it can to 
get a top-down decision made without involving the multi-stakeholder process.

Just look at what has happened already with this issue, the open vs closed 
debate, and the Strawman.  Regardless of your stance on these issues, the 
amount of letters directly to the ICANN CEO has been staggering in the last 
couple of months compared the last several years. I believe this is happening 
because of the seemingly increased perception that this current board and staff 
is willing to push aside the multi-stakeholder process by calling things 
implementation and make top-down decisions.

If icann is seen as an entity getting more involved in "consumer protection 
issues" or "competition authority type" decisions, as is reflected in the 
latest version of what has been called the "public interest amendment process" 
(which I call the Board Initiated Amendment process) this flurry of letters is 
just the tip of the iceberg in my opinion.

All of this should be discussed in Beijing.



Best regards,

Jeffrey J. Neuman

Sent from iPad.  Please excuse any typos.


 -----Original Message-----
From:   Jonathan Robinson [mailto:jonathan.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:   Saturday, March 30, 2013 07:55 AM Eastern Standard Time
To:     council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:        [council] FW: Letter of support ICANN - NOC AUT

All,

 

Please note the contents of the attached in relation to the protection of the 
words “Olympic” and “Olympiad”.

 

I have been cc’d on a flurry of letters which, from what I have seen, are all 
essentially the same i.e. letters from national Olympic Committees to their 
respective Governments.

 

Jonathan

 

From: Elisabeth Traintinger [mailto:traintinger@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 29 March 2013 10:53
To: christian.singer@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Heather.Dryden@xxxxxxxx; SRadell@xxxxxxxxxxxx; 
mark.carvell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; jonathan.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx; 
cherine.chalaby@xxxxxxxxx; fadi.chehade@xxxxxxxxx; jbikoff@xxxxxxxxx; 
marianne.chappuis@xxxxxxxxxxx; howard.stupp@xxxxxxxxxxx; Peter MENNEL; Florian 
Gosch
Subject: Letter of support ICANN - NOC AUT

 

Dear Mr. Singer,

 

on behalf of the Secretary General of the Austrian Olympic Committee, Mr. Peter 
Mennel, I would like to forward a letter regarding protection of the words 
“Olympic” and” Olympiad” in the expanding internet domain name space.

 

Yours sincerely

Elisabeth Traintinger

 

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