ICANN should confine itself to technical and operational matters
Comments: ICANN should not try to regulate morality and public order on the Internet. There is no global consensus on these cultural issues, and applying a one-size-fits-all policy to censor the global Internet cannot work. The proposed challenge process allows too much subjective uncertainty in what should be a completely objective and well-defined application procedure. It requires ICANN to judge cases for which it has no established institutional capacity, and sets up a completely spurious legal jurisdiction without any accountable political authority. These problems are too important to let the proposed policy be approved without fixing them. Please protect freedom of expression and innovation by removing non-technical and non-operational criteria from all ICANN policies. Keep the Internet open and nondiscriminatory. Keep the core neutral! Ken Lohento |