I seconded Jeff Neuman's request that we discuss this on the Council's agenda next week. NCSG might also want to ask for a briefing from ICANN staff -- and from the Registrars -- to answer questions we might have in preparing for public comments. --Wendy On 03/08/2013 11:11 AM, 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. > > 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 >> >> > > > > > IP JUSTICE > Robin Gross, Executive Director > 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA > p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451 > w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: [log in to unmask] > > > > -- Wendy Seltzer -- [log in to unmask] +1 617.863.0613 Policy Counsel, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Visiting Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society Project http://wendy.seltzer.org/ https://www.chillingeffects.org/ https://www.torproject.org/ http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/