<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Thank you Ed for this comments. Since my participation in ATRT2 I noticed that ICANN has a very blurry idea of "compliance", as understood in other regulated sectors like finance (to fight money laundering, tax evasion, etc) and those entities take compliance very seriously. In the end, after 3 serious requests for a formal organizational chart I never got a clear answer on the compliance function. And the chars disappeared as well.</div><div><br></div><div>In LA or just before, Fadi announced another tip level advisor on (contract?) compliance, reporting to him.</div><div><br></div><div>Question</div><div><br></div><div>Can a formal definition of the compliance function help the issues you mention?</div><div><br></div><div>Best<br><br>Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez<div>+506 8837 7176 (New Number)</div><div>Enviado desde mi iPhone</div></div><div><br>El ene 25, 2015, a las 7:33 PM, Edward Morris <<a href="mailto:egmorris1@TOAST.NET">egmorris1@TOAST.NET</a>> escribió:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Rafik,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’d like to suggest a topic that has not had high visibility
in our stakeholder group in recent years, yet is a big part of the NCSG DNA:
the belief that ICANN should not be involved in content control. It’s part of
our belief in free expression and it’s something that very slowly ICANN is
getting involved in fairly blatantly. I think it would be productive for us to
raise the flag in this area to get word to the Board that we’re noticing this
and that we do not approve of this mission creep.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ICANN has always been involved in content to some degree. The most
visible activity in this area came during the .XXX battles where contractual
language specified forms of prohibited content. Obviously the new gTLD
programme involves, in many ways, content classification. But recently…</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This autumn we learned that ICANN had employees going
through corporate records of firms in Panama to help law enforcement track down
an alleged child pornography ring. ( <a href="http://domainincite.com/14842-icann-helps-bust-russian-child-porn-ring">http://domainincite.com/14842-icann-helps-bust-russian-child-porn-ring</a>
). Now Fadi tells us they are attempting to figure out what to do with the case
of a Bulgarian man with servers in Costa Rica who is allegedly putting i.p.
ingringing content online ( NCSG – CEO meeting, NCPH intersessional transcript,
p. 19-20). This is certainly a long way from names and numbers. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We know Fadi’s perspective. According to Mr. Chehade, ICANN
is under pressure. It’s one of the reasons ICANN is supposedly getting involved
in the NMI. Yet during the interessional meeting Fadi also stated several times
that ICANN needed community input to help determine “how far does ICANN want to
go?” on matters like these (intersessional transcript, p. 10). We need to tell
him that ICANN has no role to play in policing content online.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Although we know Fadi’s position (both revelations mentioned
above came as a result of Fadi speaking extemporaneously) and expressed
confusion on these matters we
haven’t really heard from the Board about situations like these. On the one hand we’re
told during the transition that ICANN has a limited remit and is going to stick
to it. On the other hand we have ICANN employees searching through Central
American corporate records to assist authorities in policing content. I think
it would be appropriate for us to express concern about ICANN’s incursions,
both actual and contemplated, into content and to try to get clarification as to
the Board’s views and intentions on the matter.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ed </p>
<div hspace="streak-pt-mark" style="max-height:1px"><img style="width:0px; max-height:0px;" src="https://mailfoogae.appspot.com/t?sender=aZWdtb3JyaXMxQHRvYXN0Lm5ldA%3D%3D&type=zerocontent&guid=668aaf33-00bf-4ba0-8853-833495319ef2"><font color="#ffffff" size="1">ᐧ</font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Rafik Dammak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Hi everyone,</p>
<p dir="ltr">We need to get 3 topics to discuss with the ICANN board at singapore meeting.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Best, </p>
<p dir="ltr">Rafik </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 20, 2015 10:32 AM, "Rafik Dammak" <<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,
<div><br></div><div>like every time in preparation for ICANN meeting, we have to discuss what kind of topics/issues we want to raise with ICANN board members when we meet them.</div><div><br></div><div>we will try to get 3 topics and send them 1 week prior to the session. </div><div>please propose topics and suggest short descriptions . we will conduct later a polling to pick-up the 3 topics among the proposals.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Rafik</div></div>
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