Hi Tapani,

These questions look great - hitting some important and concerning 
issues for NCSG and the ICANN Community.

Per Bill's suggestion, may I suggest we move Question #1 to #3 or #4?  
As Bill noted, the Content question (current #2) is one that we are 
supporting the Board on (Steve Crocker has been great on pushing back 
against using the DNS for content control). The Whois may be one that we 
can gather support on too.  Human Rights may be in a similar category.

Current Question #1 is an adversarial one, as Bill pointed out. He 
suggested we move it to after the questions on which we are likely to 
have agreement, such as content.  (To rephrase Bill, can we have our 
"kumbaya" moments first?)

Best, Kathy


On 10/31/2016 9:29 AM, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
> Collecting and combining topics here's what I came up to
> ask the board. Way past deadline, have to send it today,
> if anybody spots glaring errors please let me know ASAP.
>
>
> 1. How does the Board expect the the new complaint system to work when it
> puts ICANN's lawyer, whose job is to protect the corporation from
> complainers whether they are right or wrong, in charge of managing
> complaints? Has the Board considered how it affects the independence
> of the Ombudsman? As an example of our concerns, why there were no
> repercussions for the abuses of TLD evaluation procedures in the Dot
> Registry case?
>
> 2. Does the Board continue to agree with Fadi Chehade's position
> of Summer 2015 that ICANN does not police content,
> https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-is-not-the-internet-content-police
> (published by Alan Grogan, ICANN's Chief Contract Compliance Officer)?
> Does the Board share our concerns that arrangements like the
> MPAA-Donuts agreement are deeply inappropriate for the Domain Name
> System?
>
> 3. The Whois Complaint process and why anonymous people can ask for
> personal information about registrants. Why ICANN never investigates
> whether these allegations are intended to harass, intimidate or for
> anti-competitive reasons?
>
> 4. What steps the ICANN board is making and when to implement a Human
> Rights Impact Assessment of ICANN the organization?
>
>