[IRPCoalition] ICANN, WHOIS, and Human Rights

[Bodle, Robert]

Thank you James and Rafik for sharing your work in the Non-commercial Stakeholders Group with the IRPC list. 

"The Comments of the Non-commercial Stakeholders Group: GNSO Privacy & Proxy Service Accreditation Issues WG Initial Report" is a strong statement and -- with the articles and petitions -- has gone far to "highlight why ICANN policies are important and critical even if they may sound cryptic or narrow" (Rafik).

The following line from the report helps sum up the Human Rights implications of the policy: "Anonymous political speech is protected under the US First Amendment and recent Supreme Court cases, and that the right to speak legally in any medium without persecution is protection by the UN Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19" http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-ppsai-initial-05may15/pdfYsT8A5HEop.pdf

All the best,
Robert

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From: James Gannon [james at cyberinvasion.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 6:58 AM
To: Rafik Dammak; Bodle, Robert
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Subject: RE: [IRPCoalition] ICANN, WHOIS, and Human Rights

And I am a member of the Privacy/Proxy WHOIS working group that submitted the minority statement and drafted the NCSG comments.
Happy to answer any questions if people have any!

-James Gannon


From: IRP [mailto:irp-bounces at lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org] On Behalf Of Rafik Dammak
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 10:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [IRPCoalition] ICANN, WHOIS, and Human Rights


Hi Robert,

Thanks for sharing this, I will try to do my overdue work on reporting the activities within ICANN.
I have submitted the statement today and there are more details about NCSG position regarding that whois issue.
http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-ppsai-initial-05may15/msg11285.html

Best Regards,

Rafik
On Jul 8, 2015 4:10 AM, "Bodle, Robert" <Robert.Bodle at msj.edu<mailto:Robert.Bodle at msj.edu>> wrote:
I wanted to share two related articles that should be of interest to IRPrs:

Rafik Dammak, chair of the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG) at ICANN and Steering Committee Member of IRPC, was interviewed recently by APC on ICANN's work in relation to the Domain Names System and freedom of expression activism--
“We need to avoid a situation where the DNS is used to police content”: A conversation with ICANN's Rafik Dammak available here: http://www.apc.org/en/news/“we-need-avoid-situation-where-dns-used-police-con

EFF"s article -- "Powerful Coalition Letter Highlights Danger of ICANN’s New Domain Registration Proposal" mentions The Noncommercial Stakeholders Group's work in opposing ICANN's potential ban on privacy services entirely for websites that are used for a “commercial purpose:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/powerful-coalition-letter-highlights-danger-icanns-new-domain-registration

Best,
Robert
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Robert Bodle, Ph.D. (University of Southern California)
Associate Professor
Department of Communication and New Media Studies
Mount St. Joseph University
Cincinnati, OH45233-1670
(513) 244-4829
robert_bodle at mail.msj.edu<mailto:robert_bodle at mail.msj.edu>

Adjunct Professor
Department of Media, Journalism and Film
Miami University
Oxford, OH45056
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