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IP Justice Launches Keep the Core Neutral Campaign
The IP Justice launched its Keep the Core Neutral campaign yesterday (June 27), aimed to protect freedom of expression and innovation in domain name policy at ICANN’s San Juan Board meeting. The campaign includes a Global Petition submitted to ICANN Board of Directors.
Although IP Justice supports the introduction of new gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains), it is concerned about the devastating effects that the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Recommendations and the GNSO Policy Council’s Recommendations may have on freedom of expression on the internet.
The petition, open for signing at Keep the Core Neutral web-site, invokes the universal right to receive and impart information and ideas without interference through any media, including the cyberspace, and asks ICANN to “to keep the core neutral of non-technical disputes and choose policies that respect freedom of expression and permit innovation in the new domain name space.”
The campaign also asks ICANN to stay within its technical mandate and refrain from embedding particular national, regional, moral, or religious policy objectives into global rules over the use of language in domain names.
“Please do not allow ICANN to become a convenient lever of global control by those seeking to censor unpopular or controversial expression on the Internet”, states the text of the Petition.
Finally, IP Justice urges ICANN to resist any attempt to limit what ideas may be expressed at any level of the Internet hierarchy. Please keep the Internet’s technical core neutral from national or other ideological conflicts, allowing freedom and innovation to flourish in cyberspace.
The Petition was officially presented to the ICANN Board of Directors meeting yesterday. owpsee is one of the initial signatories of the petition, and we invite you, both our partners and non-partner organizations from Southeast Europe to join this initiative and sign the Petition.
For additional info on this issue please visit ipjustice.org, GNSO website and the Campaign Website.
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