Guide to ICANN 61

[farzaneh badii]

NCSG members,


 This is my guide to ICANN 61. Most of the issues are a matter of concern
for NCSG in general but since I am late and did not pass this document
through Policy Committee, lets call it NCSG Chair ’s guide.



I have divided this guide by issues we care about but you can also see the
sessions date and time in the attached file.



*Jurisdiction, Transparency, SOAC Accountability, Ombudsman, Diversity*



We start the ICANN 61 with the WS2 on accountability. Issues  I have been
following closely are: Jurisdiction, ombudsman and SOAC Accountability. We
are going to just iron out some of the issues with these reports. They are
in general good recommendations and we hope that the Board adopts them.



Our members have leading roles in diversity, human rights, transparency.



*Privacy*



The sessions that are of importance are the RDS group session which will be
held on Saturday. This session is very important because it will discuss
“whois purpose” and the documents it has so far provided are not consistent
at all with ICANN mission regarding WHOIS purpose and are too broad. So if
we want better privacy, we need to narrow these  definitions and argue that
many are not within ICANN mission. See you there to achieve this goal at
RDS meeting?



We will also have a Cross Community Session on GDPR, Stephanie Perrin will
be there to bring forward our perspective.







*Trademark Overreach*



If you want to fight with trademark overreach, attend the rights protection
mechanisms meeting. If you want a balanced Trademark protection at ICANN
that is less intrusive on registrants rights, attend the rights protection
mechanisms WGs. Kathy Kleiman has long been active in this group and
generally in dispute resolution in domain name and is our subject matter
expert. She will be busy but you might want to reach out to her.





*DNS Abuse and Its Technical Definition*



One of NCSG goals is to keep DNS abuse definition a technical one so that
it can’t be used by overzealous intellectual property enthusiasts to argue
that copyright infringement is DNS abuse. To do that we need to be
organized and strategic. Try to attend the session called “How it works:
understanding DNS abuse”. There is also a project being led by ICANN called
Domain Name Abuse Activity Reporting. https://www.icann.org/octo-ssr/daar
This project can also be problematic and they will have a meeting on
Thursday which you might want to attend.





*And what is GAC up to? *



GAC is up to many things this meeting but most important one is GDPR ( they
have a meeting on that) . Their public safety group will have a meeting
with them to talk about GDPR! And that would be an interesting meeting if
it’s open to the public (I assume it is). If open, it is good to see what
they are planning (or I call it cook it for the next couple of months).
GAC’s well known action to claim two letter domain at the second level will
be also discussed in San Juan. Unfortunately it conflicts with our NCSG
inreach but I will ask our GNSO GAC liaison to let us know what they are
planning to claim next. They will discuss .Amazon and Geographic names as
well. Probably some GAC members want to claim all geographic names even
when they are generic names! Would be good to keep an eye on that as well.



We will also have a meeting with them to discuss various matters, mostly
privacy and rights protection mechanism.





*Our group meetings:*



We have many meetings at constituency and SG level. Michael is also leading
the transparency session at cross community session. Meetings vary from
NPOC and NCUC outreach to inreach, to policy writing course (NCUC) to NCSG
policy committee meeting. We also have our usual meeting with the Board.







You see other meetings in my schedule which I have not mentioned here. You
can find their description on ICANN schedule.





Hope this is helpful, I will make it more organized and add links to the
meetings soon.



See you in person or remotely at ICANN 61.





Farzaneh
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