+1 Kathy, good points and thank you for highlighting Bill's suggestion as
well.

Best,
-Michael


On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Kathy Kleiman <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> 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?
>>
>>
>>