Welcome to the collabwriting & coordination site for the Registrants Rights Charter
(and other follow up to the Internet Rights and Principles meeting @ ICANN AtLarge Summit Mexico)
As a result of the Internet Rights and Principles in the Work of ICANN (http://mex.icann.org/node/2651) participants agreed to follow up on several points including the development of a Registrants Rights Charter. Anybody interested in joining this effort please contribute to this wiki page and contact maxsenges @ gmail.com
Here are the minutes from our meeting in Mexico - Please feel free to amend where you feel need.
Here the draft statement of the thematic session contributed to the final At-Large Declaration:
Finally, there was general support for the idea of a standardized statement of registrant rights (Registrans Rights Charter) to be compulsorily shown by registrars (and resellers as well) when a registrant buys a domain name. Participants agreed to work on a proposal for its substance as well as means to include the charter into ICANNs policy body as a follow-up to the meeting.
Let's use the space here to collabowrite the Registrants Rights Charter.
some first really rough ideas from reviewing the examples below:
Choice of Provider // Price
Competition and the right to change
Transparency of conditions
Registrants have the right to digital privacy
Registrants must provide transparent information so that end users can clearly and easily see through URLs to a direct description of the domain name owner - name,city, state/country, contact information, and focus/interest/bias/ngo/business/....
Registrants have the right to choose a domain name of their choice (practice Freedom of Expression)
Registrants have the right to technical neutrality – fair administration of rights
Digital challenge (inspired by danish charter)
The digital world offers unsuspected possibilities. All parties involved must take on responsibility for contributing to – not counteracting – the most favourable conditions of growth for digitalisation.
Use services without being monitored (inspired by norwegian charter)
When you purchase a domain, you leave digital traces. Additionally, the domain you have
purchased or programs you use may send information back to the seller or others. Everyone should be able
to use digital services without being under surveillance of having their activity stored by others.
Examples (for inspiration)
there are several european countries who have elaborated charters on consumer's digital rights.
Here's a few examples:
germany 2007: (unfortunately if could not find it in englisch on the web, but it exists also in englisch:
here's the link to the french version:
http://www.bmelv.de/cln_044/
danmark:
http://www.forbrugerraadet.dk/
norway:
http://ec.europa.eu/
