Input request: Upcoming Meeting with ICANN CEO and w/ the ICANN Board at ICANN70

Mon Feb 15 22:00:21 EET 2021

Hey all,

According to your input, these are my suggestions of talking
points/questions for the CEO:

SSAD and Content Moderation

   1.

   On a recent communication that was sent to the Board and to you, we
   asked a few questions regarding an "ICANN Org Comments on the
   Recommendations 01/2020 on Measures That Supplement Transfer Tools to
   Ensure Compliance With the EU Level of Protection of Personal Data".
   NCSGs letter was seeking clarification about an specific part of the
   statement that highlighted that SSAD was "instrumental for stopping and
   preventing the dissemination of illegal content and in order to avoid
   related societal harms". On that note, I would like to ask you how the
   development of a new System for Standardized Access/Disclosure falls within
   the realm of instruments for preventing the dissemination of illegal
   content ?
   2.

   When the document mentions the prevention of the dissemination of
   illegal content and societal harm, does it relate to factors other than the
   access to information object of legitimate requests by legal authorities
   and/or related to investigations ?

DNS Abuse and the DNS Security Facilitation Initiative Technical Study Group

   1.

   Do you believe ICANN is working towards security and stability and
   fighting DNS abuse as much as its mission allows? Are there grounds for
   improvement ?

Comment: NCSG has recently formed its own task-force for studying and
defining its own understanding of DNS abuse and possible mitigation
opportunities from a digital rights/civil society perspective.

   1.

   NCSG would also like to know more about the DNS Security Facilitation
   Initiative Technical Study Group. Where does this technical study group
   fall within ICANNs strategy for dealing with DNS abuse?

I believe we can take a further look into these questions at tomorrow
morning's Policy Meeting, but am happy to hear your comments and
suggestions here! best,
B

On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 3:16 PM Stephanie E Perrin <
stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:

> Indeed, and the least they can do is make a publically archived list so we
> can see their deliberations.  I would add that financial transparency for
> these initiatives would be a fine thing, what did the last technical group
> led by Mohan, to basically test RDAP, cost us?
>
> Stephanie Perrin
> On 2021-02-07 10:30 a.m., farzaneh badii wrote:
>
> *EXTERNAL EMAIL:*
> Thank you Bruna.
>
> We can also discuss DNS abuse and ask the CEO about this initiative:
> https://www.icann.org/news/blog/introducing-the-dns-security-facilitation-initiative-technical-study-group
>
> This initiative was formed similar to the “strawberry tech group” in a
> top-down manner and at the request of the CEO (I believe that is the case).
> The group’s responsibilities are very expansive
>
> And predictably, there is no digital rights scholar or advocate on this
> team (not asking for NCSG rep but someone with at least some kind of
> expertise in this area)
> https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/136120045/DSFI%20TSG%20Bios%20%287%29.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1593546327000&api=v2
>
> The CEO might tell you that this is a solely technical group. We have
> heard this argument before. Unfortunately, a lot of these technical
> decisions are entangled with policy matters as we saw at SSR2. Another
> assertion is that this work is much broader than DNS abuse and doesn’t have
> much to do with it.
> Well, broader means inclusive of DNS abuse.
>
> Note that the group’s meetings are not recorded. The group makes
> recommendations to the CEO for consideration. We will have the chance to
> “review” the recommendations which is a vague term. Review as in have a
> look at it or actually comment on it.
>
> One argument in support of this group is that the Board set the security
> matters as a priority for the CEO and he is acting upon that. That is fine
> but at least it would be good to have some observers from civil society to
> monitor the process.
>
>
>
> On Sunday, February 7, 2021, Raphael Beauregard-Lacroix <
> rbeauregardlacroix at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +1 for Farzaneh's suggestions :)
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 9:20 PM Bruna Martins dos Santos <
>> bruna.mrtns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear NCSG,
>>>
>>> Hope this email finds you well!
>>>
>>> We have two important interactions with ICANN executives coming up -
>>> NCSG 1:1 Meeting with the CEO and out meeting with the Board at ICANN70 -
>>> for the two, I need to provide icann staff with talking points.
>>>
>>> The date of our meeting with the board at ICANN70 is not yet defined but
>>> my meeting with Goran is taking place on Monday, 22 February.
>>>
>>> Are there any ideas of discussion points or questions you would like us
>>> to propose to any of these meetings ?
>>>
>>> I recall @farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com> suggested something
>>> about the SSAD and EDPB interactions and we also have an ongoing interest
>>> in learning a little more about the ICANN Org interaction with the EU
>>> Commission for data protection purposes. Besides that, maybe DNS Abuse is
>>> something else that can come up in these conversations, anything else ?
>>>
>>> Looking forward to hearing from you!
>>>
>>> best,
>>> --
>>> *Bruna Martins dos Santos *
>>>
>>> Skype ID: bruna.martinsantos
>>> @boomartins
>>>
>>
>
> --
> Farzaneh
>
>

-- 
*Bruna Martins dos Santos *

Skype ID: bruna.martinsantos
@boomartins
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