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    <p>Completely agree.<br>
    </p>
    <p>I hate to think how much a time and effort has been put into this
      step 1.  It is not even clear what the purpose/goal of this effort
      as whole is - except it seems the end game is a tool to: "...
      develop metrics to measure the health of the Internet's unique
      identifier system that <abbr title="Internet Corporation for
        Assigned Names and Numbers">ICANN</abbr> helps coordinate. As
      soon as those metrics will be defined, <abbr title="Internet
        Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" class="">ICANN</abbr>
      will measure and track them over a substantive period of time to
      see the evolution of the “State of the Identifier Technology”.  <br>
    </p>
    <p>SAC077 in the last para says the following: "We encourage ICANN
      to take a step back from what existing data is available and <b>consider
        how</b><b> best to inform the larger community, especially
        consumers, with respect to the security and</b><b> stability of
        the DNS marketplace</b>."  My highlights.  The "creative" naming
      of DNS diseases is hardly going to inform, rather, unfortunately,
      it will just confuse the "larger community".</p>
    <p>Seems another step back is required.<br>
    </p>
    <p>Matthew</p>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/12/2016 14:32, Edward Morris
      wrote:<br>
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    <blockquote cite="mid:798b8611fe3f48ae847e6b1fc1dde186@toast.net"
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        <div>Ayden,</div>
        <div> </div>
        <div>Thank you for bringing this to our attention. </div>
        <div> </div>
        <div>This is a dangerous document. Yes, it is infantile,
          insulting to the community and framed in an incredibly
          condescending manner. That's not the big problem.</div>
        <div> </div>
        <div>These so called "disease"s are a mixture of technical
          measures that call for technical solutions and policy problems
          that implicitly call for compliance action. That is a big
          problem. I'm tempted to say the solution these policy oriented
          "diseases" lead us to are worse than the "disease" itself, but
          that would be playing into the rather ridiculous formulation.</div>
        <div> </div>
        <div>We have 39 days to respond and other matters which
          currently require our attention. I would suggest that this
          should be a major point of emphasis for the NCSG, NCUC and
          NPOC at the start of the New Year. We need multiple comments
          attacking the premise and content from different angels. It is
          important we don't neglect this and do formulate appropriate
          and effective responses. Any "disease" that has as it's
          solution increased compliance and regulation is a potential
          threat to our core values of privacy and free expression. It
          is analogous to societies that lock up dissidents because they
          cause "disharmony", which is considered a societal ill.</div>
        <div> </div>
        <div>Here is a direct link to the
slides: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ithi-dns-health-free-frrom-diseases-29nov16-en.pdf">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ithi-dns-health-free-frrom-diseases-29nov16-en.pdf</a>
          .</div>
        <div> </div>
        <div>Best,</div>
        <div> </div>
        <div>Ed</div>
        <div> </div>
        <div> </div>
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        <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,sans-serif;
            font-size: 10pt;"><b>From</b>: "Ayden Férdeline"
            <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:icann@FERDELINE.COM"><icann@FERDELINE.COM></a><br>
            <b>Sent</b>: Thursday, December 1, 2016 1:05 PM<br>
            <b>To</b>: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU">NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a><br>
            <b>Subject</b>: Public Comment on Identifier Technology
            Health Indicators</span>
          <div> </div>
          <div>Hi all,<br>
            <br>
            ICANN is soliciting feedback from the community on "the
            description of five diseases that could affect the health of
            the name part of the system of unique Internet identifiers."
            These five diseases
            include: Datamalgia, Abusitis, Magnitudalgia, Perfluoism,
            and Datafallaxopathy. You will have to <a
              moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ithi-dns-health-free-frrom-diseases-29nov16-en.pdf"
              rel="nofollow"
title="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ithi-dns-health-free-frrom-diseases-29nov16-en.pdf">download
              this document</a> for definitions of these terms, all of
            which, in my view, have been invented unnecessarily.<br>
            <br>
            I would like to propose that we submit a response to this
            consultation requesting that ICANN use simpler, more
            accessible language in its documents moving forward, and <i>make
              it clear what the consultation is actually consulting us
              on</i>, because I'm not actually sure as to what feedback
            they're looking to receive. For this document in particular,
            it would be helpful if there was a list of questions to
            guide us to those areas where community input is being
            sought. And, for good measure, maybe then they could re-open
            this consultation...<br>
            <br>
            The consultation is here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/ithi-definition-2016-11-29-en">https://www.icann.org/public-comments/ithi-definition-2016-11-29-en</a></div>
          <div> </div>
          <div>Best wishes,</div>
          <div> </div>
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              <div>Ayden Férdeline</div>
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Global Internet Policy and Human Rights
Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)
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