I will be happy to try and help. fraternal regards --c.a. On 06/24/2010 07:28 AM, Alex Gakuru wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Wendy Seltzer<[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Thanks Carlos, >> We should include you in drafting public comments on the RAA report which >> attached the law enforcement recommendations. >> > > I second Carlos inclusion on the drafters team. > > >> I think at least some of the law enforcement representatives are concerned >> about balance, and perhaps we can acknowledge their concerns while >> recommending safeguards and due process requirements to oppose many of their >> specific recommendations. > > > Absolutely! On our comments, please call for privacy law enforcement > representatives also? > > kindly, > > Alex > > >> >> Best, >> --Wendy >> >> >> On 06/24/2010 06:06 AM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote: >> >>> I have just read the transcript of the panel "Law Enforcement >>> Amendments to the RAA ", held on 21 June, 2010 during the Brussels ICANN >>> meeting. The panel was chaired by ALAC's Cheryl Langdon-Orr. Everyone >>> seemed to be sort of happy of sharing a discussion room full of police :) >>> >>> I do not understand the role law enforcers are supposed to play in >>> defining ICANN policies. >>> >>> Law enforcers such as the FBI, Interpol etc work on a very simple >>> paradigm: they follow orders, and the more information they get, the >>> better to fulfill the orders they ought to follow. So they will always >>> defend the idea that all private data should be recorded and made >>> available to them whenever they deem necessary. It simply makes their >>> job easier, and this is enough for them, and is all we will hear from >>> them, whatever the nice dressing of their discourses. >>> >>> However, ICANN should be looking for appropriate policies which abide by >>> internationally recognized human rights principles. This is the realm of >>> legislators, policy-makers, regulators -- not law enforcers -- and these >>> are the organizations ICANN should be talking to in deciding policies >>> regarding balancing privacy rights with security. >>> >>> If decisions regarding the users' / consumers' rights to privacy are >>> going to be taken on the advice of the police, I do not think we will >>> arrive at a good end of this story. >>> >>> --c.a. >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Wendy Seltzer -- [log in to unmask] >> Fellow, Silicon Flatirons Center at University of Colorado Law School >> Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet& Society at Harvard University >> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html >> http://www.chillingeffects.org/ >> https://www.torproject.org/ >> >