Benjamin's concern about .org holder awareness and engagement.

[Stephanie Perrin]

You beat me to it Sam!  This is indeed a very important issue, and is a core concern reflected in NPOC's mission.  Frankly, while I accept, as list members have pointed out, that there is some FUD being distributed around the .org sale, this is a golden opportunity to set before the oblivious world registrant population some of the more arcane aspects of the running of the DNS.

Personally, I am concerned about the migration of civil society groups to Facebook and other platforms, as opposed to running their own domains.  In so doing, they expose all their members and readers to the inevitable surveillance that comes with platform use.

Stephanie Perrin

On 2019-12-09 09:29, Sam Lanfranco wrote:
Benjamin,
You have raised an important point here, one that applies to more than just the .org domain name holders, won’t go away, and requires increased attention.
Every person, community, company, and government is now a resident in the Internet ecosystem. Most have no idea of their rights and obligations as "citizens" in those digital spaces.
In literal citizenship one’s rights and obligations evolve out of appropriate legislation, and education around acceptable behavior. There are starts around privacy rights, e.g. EU’s GPDR.
There is also an issue in this .org transaction, with ICANN’s attempts to give questionable powers to registries and registrars under the ill-named banner of DNS Abuse.
Making .org domain name holders aware of their rights and obligations, and engaging them in the policy and behavior dialogues, are important parts of defining digital citizenship.
Sam Lanfranco

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From: Benjamin Akinmoyeje <benakin at GMAIL.COM><mailto:benakin at GMAIL.COM>
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Sent: Mon, Dec 9, 2019, 8:59 AM
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I also align with this letter, however I just have some concern playing in my head.
How does this process get the representation of the about 10 million registrants of the .org TLD , knowing fully that many of them don't even participate in the IG processes? It is just a question in my head.

However this is a good approach compared to others.

Regards,
Benjamin



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