Your comments basically cover all central issues on the theme, Stephanie. Just signed the petition. Curiously, netmundial.org is registered with GoDaddy and hidden by DomainsbyProxy. :-) frt rgds --c.a. On 25-06-15 00:36, Stephanie Perrin wrote: > > We are getting some press interest in the privacy proxy issue. I > encourage you all to get people to sign on to the petition > (savedomainprivacy.org) or send in comments. Thanks to Cheapdomains, we > have thousands of individual comments on the website now > http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-ppsai-initial-05may15/. I thought > I would share my comments to one of the journalists who was looking for > a couple of the basic questions on the privacy proxy debate. > cheers > Stephanie Perrin > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Re: Any comment on the domain registration furor? > Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 19:01:06 -0300 > From: Stephanie Perrin <[log in to unmask]> > To: > > > > I am a member of the non-commercial users constituency > (NCUC)(www.ncuc.org) at ICANN, and I am a member of the PPSAI working > group. > > 1. The issue of prohibiting use of privacy/proxy services by > registrants who engage in financial transactions on a website raises > several issues for me: > > * many organizations which may be subject to discrimination and > harrassment use proxy services for their domain registrations (eg. > religious, environmental, or political groups, women's groups such > as rape crisis counselling, maternal health and women's education > initiatives, charities and civil liberties groups, the list is very > long). Many of these groups accept donations, sell paraphernalia > (mugs, tshirts etc) or generate advertising revenue. Denying them > privacy proxy services may put them at risk > * ICANN's mandate is to deal with the domain name system. Inquiring as > to what individuals and groups do once they get a website is > somewhat outside of its remit. > * Asking registrars or proxy services to determine what a registrant > is going to (eventually) do with a domain name, is impracticable. > > 2. The use of privacy/proxy services is necessary to protect certain > fundamental human rights of registrants, notably privacy, freedom of > expression, and the right to anonymous freedom of assembly. Forcing > registrants to place their confidential information, including phone > numbers and addresses, puts them at risk and jeopardizes those rights. > > 3. I was one of several civil society representatives on the working > group. Please let me know if you wish to contact the others. > Kind regards, Stephanie Perrin > >