+1 Kathy, good points and thank you for highlighting Bill's suggestion as well. Best, -Michael On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Kathy Kleiman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Tapani, > > These questions look great - hitting some important and concerning issues > for NCSG and the ICANN Community. > > Per Bill's suggestion, may I suggest we move Question #1 to #3 or #4? As > Bill noted, the Content question (current #2) is one that we are supporting > the Board on (Steve Crocker has been great on pushing back against using > the DNS for content control). The Whois may be one that we can gather > support on too. Human Rights may be in a similar category. > > Current Question #1 is an adversarial one, as Bill pointed out. He > suggested we move it to after the questions on which we are likely to have > agreement, such as content. (To rephrase Bill, can we have our "kumbaya" > moments first?) > > Best, Kathy > > > > On 10/31/2016 9:29 AM, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: > >> Collecting and combining topics here's what I came up to >> ask the board. Way past deadline, have to send it today, >> if anybody spots glaring errors please let me know ASAP. >> >> >> 1. How does the Board expect the the new complaint system to work when it >> puts ICANN's lawyer, whose job is to protect the corporation from >> complainers whether they are right or wrong, in charge of managing >> complaints? Has the Board considered how it affects the independence >> of the Ombudsman? As an example of our concerns, why there were no >> repercussions for the abuses of TLD evaluation procedures in the Dot >> Registry case? >> >> 2. Does the Board continue to agree with Fadi Chehade's position >> of Summer 2015 that ICANN does not police content, >> https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-is-not-the-internet-content-police >> (published by Alan Grogan, ICANN's Chief Contract Compliance Officer)? >> Does the Board share our concerns that arrangements like the >> MPAA-Donuts agreement are deeply inappropriate for the Domain Name >> System? >> >> 3. The Whois Complaint process and why anonymous people can ask for >> personal information about registrants. Why ICANN never investigates >> whether these allegations are intended to harass, intimidate or for >> anti-competitive reasons? >> >> 4. What steps the ICANN board is making and when to implement a Human >> Rights Impact Assessment of ICANN the organization? >> >> >>