During the e-Crime conference at the ICANN Mexico meetings, several panels were interrogated on the issues related to e-Crime. Session 3 focused on the Role of ICANN Stakeholders and Staff in Responding to e-Crime.
Moderator: Lyman Chapin (former Director, ICANN Board)
Panel: Jon Nevett (Network Solutions); Garth Bruen (Knujon); Steve Metalitz (Intellectual Property Constituency); David Giza (ICANN Compliance Office); Roelof Meijer (SIDN); Adam Palmer (Public Interest Registry); Rudi Vansnick (ISOC.be); Marc Ottawa (Royal Canadian Mounted Police); Andy Steingruebl (PayPal);
The first question is what are the top two challenges faced by consumers, interveners and law enforcement agents when responding to e-crime and DNS abuse?
My response to this question :
First, thank you for giving us the occasion to speak up in name of the Internet users, the consumer, as part of the at-large community.
From the point of view of the user, the domain name space is fuzzy, fairly difficult to understand.
If we look at the presentations we have seen before, if you would show these presentations to a citizen, he or she would probably never get to the Internet, at least I wouldn’t.
In that regard, it seems to me that the big challenge for the ICANN community is to clarify the positions and responsibilities of each of the parties involved, be it registries, registrars, or registrants.
And on top of that, I think that ICANN has a specific role to inform all of us what is how to do when it goes wrong.
And I would like to use something which is used in the automobile industry. It helped a lot of people, a lot of us to not get lost in the streets. And perhaps an ICANN GPS would be a solution for not getting lost and to find the way we could have solutions. Just pointing out that the upcoming new gTLDs process and the IDNs especially will make it more difficult to understand the road signs, to understand the street names, and to not get lost somewhere in the middle of the jungle.
The challenge will be to keep that GPS updated and correct. And I think it is also the need of the global world involving government, registries, and all the other parties, but certainly the user should not be forgotten, as the user is the one who knows if the roadmap fits, if the others is correct.
And I hope I made clear that it is not a job of one party. It is, rather, the job of all of us working closely together: Governments, policy, technical partners, and last but not least, the consumer, who pays most often for the final result being good or being bad.
And I’m almost sure that the at-large community is ready to take up the task and make the ICANN GPS the tool you all need.
The full scribe of the session is available at http://mex.icann.org/files/meetings/mexico2009/transcript-ecrime-04mar09-en.txt
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