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.

Robin


On Mar 8, 2013, at 7:59 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/proposed-raa-07mar13- 
> en.htm
>
> 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.
>
> 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/
>
> Cheers
> Mary
>
> Mary W S Wong
> Professor of Law
> Director, Franklin Pierce Center for IP
> Chair, Graduate IP Programs
> UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL OF LAW
> Two White Street
> Concord, NH 03301
> USA
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> Phone: 1-603-513-5143
> Webpage: http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.php
> Selected writings available on the Social Science Research Network  
> (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=437584
>
>




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