Hi,

At least they may have now inspired the Contracted parties to join us in the fight against ICANN Unilateralism.  Unless we stop it now, ICANN 3.0 will be the age of the ICANN Imperium.

ICANN 1.0 - Democracy
ICANN 2.0 - Oligarchy
ICANN 3.0 - Imperium


avri


On 8 Mar 2013, at 11:11, Robin Gross wrote:

> Thanks, Mary, I just saw the Registrars statement on this issue this morning and was pretty shocked by ICANN's latest move toward unilateralism (a very troubling trend) with staff's brand new RAA demands at this late hour.  ICANN has been moving away from "bottom up" multistakeholderism at the same time that it trumpets such a model at the ITU and elsewhere.  ICANN staff/board can't continue to claim ICANN is bottom-up while it reserves for itself the right to make all decisions.  
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> Robin
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> On Mar 8, 2013, at 7:59 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>> http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/proposed-raa-07mar13-en.htm
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>> Besides the draft Registrant Rights & Responsibility (R3) document that has already been discussed on this list, there are several other issues that may be of concern/interest to NCSG members, including the overlap with the changes currently being proposed to the new gTLD Registry Agreement in light of the whole "public interest" issue around new gTLDs. Note that the law enforcement agencies' requests that dominated earlier public discussions of the RAA were already folded into the draft before February, which is when the last round of negotiations between the Registrars and ICANN took place.
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>> The Registrars' Negotiating Team don't seem happy with ICANN releasing the draft at this point, interpreting that to mean that as far as ICANN is concerned this means negotiations are, effectively, over. Here's their official statement:  http://www.internetnews.me/2013/03/08/registrar-negotiating-team-issues-statement-on-raa/
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>> Cheers
>> Mary
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