<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I support as well this statement though there are a few issues of concern.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyone can get a domain name with a PO BOX but no one can get a Facebook account, an email, a bank account, a whatsup or anything other without a name or phone number or passport.</div><div class="">It is indeed not ICANN’s problem of what happens after, who abuses whom and how. There is not only fraud, and identity theft or child abuse and drug sell and phishing but a lot more, so if there is no one to</div><div class="">hold accountable for these crimes how can we manage that?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I believe someone who is able to register a domain name should be in some matter hold accountable if they are harming others and if they are allowed to be so secretive and not even have a name when registering an account how can domain abuse be reduced?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think these issues need experts to deal with and a bit more responsibility should be given to the people who decide to register a domain. Please correct me if i am wrong.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">With kind regards<br class=""><br class="">Adela Bodea</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination”</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> Albert Einstein </div>
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 29 Oct 2017, at 18:21, McTim <<a href="mailto:dogwallah@GMAIL.COM" class="">dogwallah@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">I support this statement.<br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class=""><br class="">McTim<br class=""><br class="">On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Mueller, Milton L <<a href="mailto:milton@gatech.edu" class="">milton@gatech.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Dear NCSG members:<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">In the next email I will send a proposed statement about domain abuse. Those<br class="">of you involved with NCUC will recognize it, it has been circulated on the<br class="">NCUC list and discussed extensively there.<br class=""><br class="">We would also like to get the endorsement of NCSG as a whole for this<br class="">statement. So I send it to the NCSG list for you to review.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">--------<br class=""><br class="">Proposed statement on domain abuse and content regulation<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">As civil society stakeholders concerned about individual rights and freedom<br class="">of expression on the Internet, we think it is important to maintain a clear<br class="">distinction between illegal content and domain name abuse. We wish to<br class="">clarify and reaffirm ICANN’s limited mission.<br class=""><br class="">Domain abuse involves cases in which the domain itself is causing problems,<br class="">such as domains that facilitate fraud and exploit confusion, support<br class="">phishing via confusing or deceptive strings, or domains that support botnet<br class="">command and control operations.<br class=""><br class="">We are concerned that the concept of “domain abuse” is being stretched to<br class="">include various forms of allegedly “illegal” or “undesirable” content on<br class="">webpages, listservs and email addresses associated with domain names. This<br class="">includes the use of domain names for political speech, personal expression<br class="">and competitive discussions. An overly-broad definition of “domain abuse”<br class="">would require ICANN to enter the realm of decision-maker or judge on whether<br class="">the webpage was a copyright-infringement or fair use, involved legal use of<br class="">a trademark to criticize a company’s products or practices or trademark<br class="">infringement, and whether hate speech, whose definition and legal status<br class="">varies from country to country, was legitimate or not.<br class=""><br class="">We believe that content that is allegedly illegal or objectionable is not<br class="">“domain abuse” and is best addressed through other, well-established legal<br class="">and regulatory methods, or through cooperative and self-regulatory action by<br class="">Internet service providers. Neither ICANN nor its contracted parties should<br class="">try to make DNS policy become the nexus for global content regulation.<br class=""><br class="">We remind all participants that ICANN’s mission, as defined in Section<br class="">1.1.(a)(i) of its bylaws, is narrowly confined to policies “for which<br class="">uniform or coordinated resolution is reasonably necessary to facilitate the<br class="">openness, interoperability, resilience, security and/or stability of the<br class="">DNS.” That clearly does not include content regulation. Moreover, the bylaws<br class="">contain a specific prohibition on regulating “services that use the<br class="">Internet's unique identifiers or the content that such services carry or<br class="">provide, outside the express scope of Section 1.1(a).”<br class=""><br class="">Expansion of ICANN’s mission into content regulation will further politicize<br class="">ICANN, and overload DNS policy with extraneous concerns that threaten the<br class="">openness and interoperability of the DNS.<br class=""><br class="">Accordingly, we call upon the ICANN board and all ICANN policy processes to<br class="">adopt a precise and narrow definition of domain abuse, one that is<br class="">consistent with ICANN’s limited mission.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Dr. Milton L. Mueller<br class=""><br class="">Professor, School of Public Policy<br class=""><br class="">Georgia Institute of Technology<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>