[CCWG-Accountability] Related work on ICANN's Public Interest

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

I think I know what "generally accepted principles of law" would apply to a hostile revocation/delegation to a new Manager of a ccTLD.

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> On Dec 17, 2014, at 23:20, Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw at abenaki.wabanaki.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/17/14 8:53 AM, Malcolm Hutty wrote:
>> Certainly I would regard it as being in the public interest that ICANN
>> should discharge its functions properly, and in accordance with generally
>> accepted principles of law.
> 
> Dear Malcolm,
> 
> What "generally accepted principles of law" do you suggest apply to the management of protocol parameters?
> 
> Similarly, what "generally accepted principles of law" do you suggest apply to the management of globally unique address identifiers?
> 
> And finally, what "generally accepted principles of law" do you suggest apply to the management of globally unique resource-to-address identifiers (domain names)?
> 
> There is of course, from the Green and White Papers period, competition policy and a transition from an incumbent monopoly contract to a competitive regime, but other than that, where do the "generally accepted principles of law" properly inform the party or parties conducting each of these three management activities?
> 
> Where, among the "generally accepted principles of law" would one look for support of the proposition that adding labels in the Han Script to the IANA root zone is in "the public interest"?
> 
> Similarly, where would one look for support of the proposition that allocation of scarce v4 addresses not be made solely upon the basis of highest price offered?
> 
> And finally, where would one look for support of the proposition that algorithms for signing zones include the GOST suite?
> 
> My point being that when the IANA Functions are as narrowly construed as we can sensibly make them, "public interest" and "generally accepted principles of law" are difficult to find points of association, let alone concordance.
> 
> Regards,
> Eric Brunner-Williams
> Eugene, Oregon
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