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?