legal ICANN RPM PDP Phase 1 Comment Period is another sham

[GeorgeK]

ICANN has an open comment period for Phase 1 Initial Report of the Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms in All gTLDs Policy Development Process. It ends in just 14 days, would have a great impact on registrants’ rights and not a single person has submitted any comments to date, as of the time of this post.

See the rest of my article below:

https://freespeech.com/2020/04/13/icann-rpm-pdp-phase-1-comment-period-is-another-sham-part-1/

I understand that registrants have been focused lately on the dot-com and dot-org fiascos (and the global pandemic), but what’s happening in the RPM PDP Working Group will also have major consequences if left unchallenged. The time is now to speak out and challenge what’s going on in that captured working group.

 

[GeorgeK]

Just posted part 2, documenting how the RPM PDP working group is captured, with numbers:

https://freespeech.com/2020/04/16/icann-rpm-pdp-phase-1-comment-period-is-another-sham-part-2/

It's basically 4 to 1 in favour of the TM lobby, explaining why proposals to ensure due process for registrants are killed, but extremist proposals like #15 (suspend an entire domain portfolio if you lose 2 URS complaints!) sailed through into the initial report seeking public comments.

 

[GeorgeK]

I just called out ICANN on the language issue:

https://freespeech.com/2020/04/17/icann-rpm-pdp-phase-1-comment-period-is-another-sham-part-3/

Did you know they didn't even bother to translate the initial report (147 pages) into the 6 UN languages? How are affected stakeholders who don't understand English expected to provide input?

 

[GeorgeK]

Just added part 4 in this series, calling out the attempts to manipulate the outcome through multiple duplicative comments from the same organization:

https://freespeech.com/2020/04/27/icann-rpm-pdp-phase-1-comment-period-is-another-sham-part-4/

 

[GeorgeK]

Just added a new post (2nd of today), about their broken/garbage comment system:

https://freespeech.com/2020/04/27/icanns-garbage-public-comment-system/

 

[Seyikp]

PDP people's Democratic Party.

 

[GeorgeK]

Just blasted ICANN again, for their lack of common sense in not having "rolling deadlines", for different sets of questions (there are 192 of them, and most won't even be reviewed until June or beyond), instead of requiring everything to be done by Monday:

https://freespeech.com/2020/05/02/icann-rpm-pdp-phase-1-comment-period-is-another-sham-part-5/

 

[GeorgeK]

Just blogged part 6 of that series on the sham comment period:

https://freespeech.com/2020/05/15/icann-rpm-pdp-phase-1-comment-period-is-another-sham-part-6/

Why are ICANN staff preventing others from deeply analyzing the submitted comments? (as Paul Tattersfield and others requested easier access to the submissions, consistent with ICANN's Open Data Initiative)

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”