In response to a letter drafted by the NCUC concerning overreaching requests of law enforcement agencies in the ongoing Registrar Accreditation Agreement negotiations, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has written the ICANN Board. Their comments focused on two new requirements proposed by LEAs for registrars, namely that they re-verify registrant contact details and […]
We would like to call the community.s attention to the current status of the Uniform Rapid Suspension system, or URS. As a method to protect brand owners and Internet users against clear and obvious instances of domain abuse, the URS was a carefully crafted community-wide consensus. It involved many ICANN constituencies and hard-won compromises that […]
We would like to call the community.s attention to the current status of the Uniform Rapid Suspension system, or URS. As a method to protect brand owners and Internet users against clear and obvious instances of domain abuse, the URS was a carefully crafted community-wide consensus. It involved many ICANN constituencies and hard-won compromises that […]
The GNSO Council formed a Working Group of interested stakeholders and Stakeholder Group / Constituency representatives, to collaborate broadly with knowledgeable individuals and organizations, in order to consider recommendations in relation to .thick. Whois. Part of the working group.s effort was to incorporate ideas and suggestions gathered from Stakeholder Groups, Constituencies. Thisis the NCUC response […]
The NCUC will be sending its newly elected Executive Committee officers and chair to the GNSO Non Contracted Parties House Intersessional Meeting, being put on by ICANN and held Jan 29-30 in Los Angeles. While not currently advertised on the ICANN website, the Executive Committee and other NCUC members are committed to keeping its membership […]
The Non-Contracted Parties House (NCPH) will hold an Inter-sessional Meeting at the ICANN Headquarters in Los Angeles on 29-30th January 2013. The full agenda is available here. NCUC’s newly elected Executive Committee and Chair will be attending in person. This meeting that brings together all stakeholders that are not contracted with ICANN such as the […]
NCUC’s Constituency Day meeting will be held from 9:00 − 12:30 Beijing time (UTC/GMT +8 hours) on Tuesday 9 April. A draft agenda is accessible from https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/NCUC+Beijin…. We will be devoting a majority of our time in the NCUC meeting to our new constituency building efforts, e.g. revamping our electronic platforms and bylaws, as well as […]
The Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) has organized and is holding a policy workshop, One World, One Internet? New gTLDs & Competition in a Changing Global Environment, next week in Beijing at ICANN-46. The program, which brings together top Western and Chinese experts, will explore pressures for integration versus fragmentation of the Internet and implications for ICANN, as well as […]