Re: [gnso-consumercci-dt] v1.9 of Advice Letter

[Alex Gakuru <gakuru@xxxxxxxxx>]

For the record, I concur with the below NCSG dissent request.

Alex Gakuru

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Wendy Seltzer <wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> I request that NCSG's dissent from the Consumer Trust metrics be noted:
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> NCSG believes that many of the "Consumer Trust" metrics rely on a faulty
> premise, that gTLDs should be predictable, rather than open to
> innovative and unexpected new uses.
>
> These metrics mistake a platform, a gTLD, for an end-product. A key
> value of a platform is its generativity -- its ability to be used and
> leveraged by third parties for new, unexpected purposes. Precisely
> because much innovation is unanticipated, it cannot be predicted for a
> chart of measures. Moreover, incentives on the intermediaries to control
> their platforms translate into restrictions on end-users' free
> expression and innovation.
>
> Just as we would not want to speak about "trust" in a pad of printing
> paper, on which anyone could make posters, and we don't ask a road
> system to interrogate what its drivers plan to do when they reach their
> destinations, we should not judge DNS registries on their users'
> activities.
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> ICANN's planned reviews of and targets for gTLD success should not
> interfere with market decisions about the utility of various offerings.
>
> In particular, NCSG disagrees with attribution at the gTLD level of the
> second group of "trust" metrics, the "Measures related to confidence
> that TLD operators are fulfilling promises and complying with ICANN
> policies and applicable national laws:" namely, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.13,
> 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17,1.18, 1.19, 1.20.  It is further inappropriate to
> use unverified complaints as a basis for metrics (1.9, 1.11, 1.20).
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> Separately, NCSG disagrees with setting targets for the "redirection,"
> "duplicates," (2.10, 2.11) and "traffic" (2.15) measures. All of these
> presume that the use for new gTLDs is to provide the same type of
> service to different parties, while some might be used to provide
> different services to parties including existing registrants.
>
> --Wendy
>
> On 08/12/2012 02:16 PM, Berry Cobb wrote:
> > Team,
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> >
> > Attached is version 1.9 in both redline and clean forms.  I also include
> > v0.3 of the Advice Letter supplement.  We will review these at our
> session
> > next week.
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> > Please send any feedback, if you have any, to the list prior to our next
> > session.
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> >
> > Thank you.  B
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> >
> > Berry Cobb
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> > Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN)
> >
> > 720.839.5735
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> > mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > @berrycobb
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