Open Letter to ICANN Board: Answers Needed as Objections Mount
To date, representatives of many key constituencies have raised serious objections to ICANN’s planned expansion of the Domain Name System (DNS). Questions have been raised regarding potential conflicts of interest that now place a cloud over the independence of the Board’s decision to expand the DNS. Spokespersons for ICANN have failed to answer questions directly and instead continuously justify proceeding with the expansion based upon a process that has proven to be flawed. In an open letter to the ICANN board of directors, the ANA (Association of National Advertisers) is asking ICANN to answer critical questions and provide appropriate documents, by January 7, 2012, that more fully explain the reasons for the expansion.
The list of questions and requests for the ICANN board, as well as articles, letters and documents from congressional leaders, global organizations and major corporations opposing ICANN’s proposal can be found below.
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Document Title |
Date
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| 1. |
Questions and Requests for ICANN Board |
12/21/2011 |
| 2. |
CRIDO Membership Roster |
12/21/2011
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| 3. |
CRIDO Petition to the United States Department of Commerce |
11/10/2011
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| 4. |
Daniel Jaffe testimony before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Hearing on ICANN’s Expansion of Top Level Domains |
12/8/2011
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| 5. |
Daniel Jaffe testimony before the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Hearing on ICANN’s Top-Level Domain Name Program |
12/14/2011
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| 6. |
Letter from the United States Federal Trade Commission to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers |
12/16/2011
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| 7. |
Law Enforcement Due Diligence Recommendations for ICANN – Seoul |
10/18/2010
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| 8. |
Governmental Advisory Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, GAC Communiqué – Dakar |
10/27/2011
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| 9. |
Open Letter from Intergovernmental Organizations on the Expansion of Generic Top Level Domains, Re: Protection Against the Misleading Use of the Names and Acronyms of International Governmental Organizations in the Domain Name System |
12/14/2011
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| 10. |
Statements of Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Hearing on ICANN’s Expansion of Top Level Domains; Statements of Representatives Greg Walden (R-OR), Ana Exchoo (D-CA), and Doris Matsui (D-CA), United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Hearing on ICANN’s Top-Level Domain Name Program |
12/14/2011
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| 11. |
Letter from Congressmen Bob Goodlatte, Chairman, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet and Howard Berman, Ranking Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, to the United States Department of Commerce |
12/16/2011
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| 12. |
Angela F. Williams, General Counsel, YMCA, testimony before United States Senate Commerce Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Hearing on ICANN’s Expansion of Top Level Domains |
12/8/2011
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| 13. |
Anjali Hansen, Council of Better Business Bureaus, testimony before the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Hearing on ICANN’s Top-Level Domain Name Program |
12/14/2011
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| 14. |
Letter from Screen Actors Guild to the United States Department of Commerce |
11/14/2011
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| 15. |
Letter from American Federation of Television and Radio Artists to the United States Department of Commerce |
11/14/2011
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| 16. |
Esther Dyson, testimony before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Hearing on ICANN’s Expansion of Top Level Domains |
12/8/2011
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| 17. |
Esther Dyson Editorial, What’s in a Domain Name, Project Syndicate |
8/25/2011
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| 18. |
Tech Daily Dose, Former ICANN Chairs Voice Concern with Domain Name Plan, reporting on concerns of Esther Dyson and Vint Cerf |
11/3/2011
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| 19. |
Gary Elliot Editorial, ICANN’s promises aren’t simply speculation, they’re outright fantasy, Advertising Age |
9/6/2011
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| 20. |
Robert Liodice Editorial, How to (Unnecessarily) Encumber The Internet And The Economy, Forbes.com |
9/30/2011
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| 21. |
Douglas Wood columns:
- Corporate Counsel: On the Internet, Can Freedom To Too Far? – December 21, 2011
- Porno and Madison Avenue, Strange Bedfellows – November 22, 201
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Class of 2011: TLDs – September 29, 2011
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| 22. |
Washington Post Editorial, What’s the .rush? |
12/12/2011
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| 23. |
San Francisco Chronicle Editorial, Why .xxx And Other New Top-Level Domains Are A Terrible Idea |
12/13/2011
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| 24. |
Letter from Robert E. Hall, Robert and Carole McNeil Joint Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and Michael Flynn of AFE Consulting to the United States Department of Commerce |
12/7/2011
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| 25. |
European Commission paper, EC paper on ICANN: New gTLD process |
8/31/2011
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| 26. |
Letter from Sen. Ron Wyden to the Unites States Department of Commerce and the United States National Telecommunications and Information Administration |
9/14/2011
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| 27. |
Letter from the United States National Telecommunications and Information Administration to Sen. Ron Wyden |
9/21/2011
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| 28. |
Excerpt from the United States Department of Commerce Request for Proposals on the IANA Contract |
11/10/2011
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| 29. |
European Commission paper, EC paper on ICANN: Corporate governance” |
8/31/2011
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| 30. |
European Commission report, “Digital Agenda: Commission welcomes improvements in new IANA contract” |
11/14/2011
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