[governance] Fwd: [gnso-dow123] Note from Paul Twomey regarding WHOIS clause in the Affirmation of Responsibilities Re

[Danny Younger]

Veni,

The issue is that the Joint Project Agreement serves
to demonstrate that ICANN is once again acting as an
unaccountable worldwide legislature.  ICANN has
promulgated a worldwide rule that declares that gTLD
WHOIS billing contact data must now be publicly
displayed.

This declaration of new policy transpired without the
benefit of community input and totally outside of what
could have been a legitimate ICANN policy development
process.  

This "legislation" (desired by intellectual property
groups located mainly in the US) is exported to the
nations of the world without community participation
or consent.  Such an action engenders a significant
amount of hostility against both ICANN and the USG
that insisted upon this clause.

As a member of the WHOIS Task Force stated:  

"events" have overcome everything that was once ICANN.
It certainly makes for a much easier reform process.
We'd just need to model around this -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppet_state and call it
a day.

With respect to WHOIS considerations, ICANN has
decided to become the vassal of the USG.  I don't view
this as a positive development.  Do you?

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