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
>
>