I apologize for repeating the pleas to sign on to a petition to save
privacy proxy services, but we are still actively recruiting your
help. As you may recall, we sent the notice listed below a while
ago but I repeat it again in hopes more of you will respond.
An exciting new development has spontaneously occurred...one of the
registrars who is not involved with the savedomainprivacy.org
campaign has emailed all their customers, apparently with a form to
generate a comment to ICANN. We are following, with some delight I
must say, the results of this on the ICANN comments site
http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-ppsai-initial-05may15/. As I
write, the total of signed comments is up to 9257, and this is
without the results of the savedomainprivacy petition. We are
hoping to make this the biggest comment total ever , aiming to
surpass 14,000. Please consider adding your plea to protect privacy
proxy services.
Kind regards,
Stephanie Perrin
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I wanted to draw to your attention, an proceeding that is taking
place at ICANN, on an important Internet governance issue. A
working group on the accreditation of privacy proxy services, which
many endangered groups and political/social dissidents use to
protect their identities from disclosure on WHOIS, has been meeting
for a year and a half. Their initial report is up for comments
until July 7. The civil society groups who have been actively
trying to protect these services from any requirements that would
price them out of existence, or make many organizations ineligible
to use them, would appreciate the support of human rights groups and
privacy advocates everywhere. There are two easy ways to do this:
Briefing Paper
The first is a briefing paper prepared by 3
members of the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group, to give an
overview of some of the issues and concerns that we feel are still
present and need some further work. You can find our briefing
attached and we welcome any feedback, suggestions or comments.
Savedomainprivacy.org
A website has also been setup by a number of
other stakeholders in this process at www.savedomainprivacy.org.
Members of the public and interested parties can sign onto a
petition to protect the ability of registrants to keep their
personal information private.
I would urge everyone to have a look at both
pieces of info and please feel free to contact me or any of the
other authors if you or your organization want further
information, or to help you submit your own comments during the
Public Comments period which will be ending on July 7th
2015.
Stephanie Perrin
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