Your comments basically cover all central issues on the theme,
Stephanie. Just signed the petition.
Curiously, netmundial.org is registered with GoDaddy and hidden by
DomainsbyProxy. :-)
frt rgds
--c.a.
On 25-06-15 00:36, Stephanie Perrin wrote:
>
> We are getting some press interest in the privacy proxy issue. I
> encourage you all to get people to sign on to the petition
> (savedomainprivacy.org) or send in comments. Thanks to Cheapdomains, we
> have thousands of individual comments on the website now
> http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-ppsai-initial-05may15/. I thought
> I would share my comments to one of the journalists who was looking for
> a couple of the basic questions on the privacy proxy debate.
> cheers
> Stephanie Perrin
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Re: Any comment on the domain registration furor?
> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 19:01:06 -0300
> From: Stephanie Perrin <[log in to unmask]>
> To:
>
>
>
> I am a member of the non-commercial users constituency
> (NCUC)(www.ncuc.org) at ICANN, and I am a member of the PPSAI working
> group.
>
> 1. The issue of prohibiting use of privacy/proxy services by
> registrants who engage in financial transactions on a website raises
> several issues for me:
>
> * many organizations which may be subject to discrimination and
> harrassment use proxy services for their domain registrations (eg.
> religious, environmental, or political groups, women's groups such
> as rape crisis counselling, maternal health and women's education
> initiatives, charities and civil liberties groups, the list is very
> long). Many of these groups accept donations, sell paraphernalia
> (mugs, tshirts etc) or generate advertising revenue. Denying them
> privacy proxy services may put them at risk
> * ICANN's mandate is to deal with the domain name system. Inquiring as
> to what individuals and groups do once they get a website is
> somewhat outside of its remit.
> * Asking registrars or proxy services to determine what a registrant
> is going to (eventually) do with a domain name, is impracticable.
>
> 2. The use of privacy/proxy services is necessary to protect certain
> fundamental human rights of registrants, notably privacy, freedom of
> expression, and the right to anonymous freedom of assembly. Forcing
> registrants to place their confidential information, including phone
> numbers and addresses, puts them at risk and jeopardizes those rights.
>
> 3. I was one of several civil society representatives on the working
> group. Please let me know if you wish to contact the others.
> Kind regards, Stephanie Perrin
>
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