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Date: Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:24 AM
Subject: [NCSG-CC] Fwd: Competition, Consumer Choice and Consumer
Trust Workshop 22nd June 12.30-1400 Padang
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From: "Rosemary Sinclair" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 21 June 2011 08:06:50 GMT+08:00
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Subject: Competition, Consumer Choice and Consumer Trust Workshop 22nd
June 12.30-1400 Padang

Hi all

Here is an invitation to the Workshop tomorrow - all are welcome

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BACKGROUND
Workshop Competition, consumer trust and choice
Singapore 22 June 12.30-1400

A workshop in Brussels in June 2010 looked a Developing a Consumer
Agenda for ICANN by looking at a number of views and approaches to
Consumer Outcomes including OECD, ISOC, InternetNZ and consumer
advocates within the ICANN community. Terms such as Public Interest,
Registrant, Internet Users, Consumers and Non-Commercial Stakeholders
were discussed.

At the Brussels meeting, ALAC released an Aspirational Registrants
Rights Charter https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/raa+wg+a+workspace+for+aspirational+registrant+rights

Since that Workshop, further progress has been made on a Proposed
Consumer Constituency within NSCG and SSAC 44 has been released, A
Registrant's Guide to Protecting Domain Name Registration Accounts (05
November 2010) Executive Summary.

A follow-up Workshop in Cartagena in December 2010 focused on ICANN’s
stated commitments in the Affirmation of Commitments to competition,
consumer trust and consumer choice. Discussion covered domain name
registration and resolution; accountability across all ICANN entities;
existing metrics; community role in setting goals; staff role in
measuring; SSAC 44, RAA, Aspirational Charter for Registrants.

During Cartagena, the Board developed a resolution which was forwarded
to GNSO in January 2011:
Consumer Choice, Competition and Innovation

Whereas, the area of consumer choice, competition and innovation is
one of the strategic areas for ICANN in the 2010 to 2013 strategy plan
<http://www.icann.org/en/strategic-plan/strategic-plan-2010-2013-19feb10-en.pdf>
[PDF, 491 KB].

Whereas, ICANN has committed to promoting competition, consumer trust
and consumer choice in the Affirmation of Commitments
<http://www.icann.org/en/documents/affirmation-of-commitments-30sep09-en.htm>.
Whereas, if and when new gTLDs (whether in ASCII or other language
character sets) have been in operation for one year, ICANN has
committed to organize a review that will examine the extent to which
the introduction or expansion of gTLDs has promoted competition,
consumer trust and consumer choice.

Resolved (2010.12.10.30), the ICANN Board requests advice from the
ALAC, GAC, GNSO and ccNSO on establishing the definition, measures,
and three year targets for those measures, for competition, consumer
trust and consumer choice in the context of the domain name system,
such advice to be provided for discussion at the ICANN International
Public meeting in San Francisco from 13-18 March 2011.

GNSO was not able to meet the deadline given a number of projects
already underway but discussed developing Workshop to begin a
community-wide discussion on definitions, appropriate measures,
measuring processes, targets and outcomes for:
•       Competition
•       Consumer Trust
•       Consumer Choice
This discussion agreed to proceed with a Workshop in Singapore in June 2010.

Singapore Workshop Objective

To discuss the range of perspectives among the community on the work
required by ICANN to support two AoC commitments:

3.c "to promote competition, consumer trust and consumer choice in the
DNS marketplace"

and more specifically,

9.3 after the first year  "to examine the extent to which the introduction or
expansion of gTLDs has promoted competition, consumer trust and
consumer choice."


Suggested Topics for Contributors

•       ICANN relevant definitions of - competition; consumer trust;
consumer choice

•       Possible Metrics for- competition; consumer trust; consumer choice

•       Measurement Tools - currently available; need to be developed.

•       Next Steps



Cheers

Rosemary


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