[CCWG-ACCT] Testimony from Fadi Chehade at the USA Senate hearing

[Roelof Meijer]

>>ICANN is currently a steward of an endeavor built with American taxpayer money. IANA belongs to the American people.

I consider that to be absolute nonsense

Best,

Roelof Meijer

From: Carrie Devorah <carriedev at gmail.com<mailto:carriedev at gmail.com>>
Date: woensdag 11 maart 2015 06:10
To: Rahul Sharma <wisdom.stoic at gmail.com<mailto:wisdom.stoic at gmail.com>>
Cc: Accountability Cross Community <accountability-cross-community at icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community at icann.org>>
Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Testimony from Fadi Chehade at the USA Senate hearing

Hi

ICANN is currently a steward of an endeavor built with American taxpayer money. IANA belongs to the American people.

The pull for IANA out of America is coming from the UN

Sincerely
Carrie Devorah
www.centerforcopyrightintegrity.com<http://www.centerforcopyrightintegrity.com>

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Rahul Sharma <wisdom.stoic at gmail.com<mailto:wisdom.stoic at gmail.com>> wrote:
In his testimony, Fadi said “ICANN has its global headquarters in the United States, and there are no plans for that to change.” When I met Fadi two days back in New Delhi, he restated that now is not the time for ICANN to move out of US; instead let's us all focus on stewardship transition. That means ICANN will continue to remain subject to US laws and jurisdiction, and ICANN even isn’t even considering propositions made by several to move ICANN out of US. Also as far as I am aware, the working group on ICANN Accountability (CCWG), is also not debating on this particular aspect.

My question is a) What are the Interest of ICANN in continuing to remain subject to US jurisdiction and US laws? And b) If ICANN is to truly emerge as a global institution, and to change the perception of other nation states and stakeholder over USG special relation with ICANN, don’t you think ICANN should move out of US, and ICANN & its functions should be subject to global laws, not state of California laws?

Look forward to views of members. It is really an important issue that should be discussed.

Best Regards,
Rahul Sharma

On 6 March 2015 at 02:57, Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin at melbourneit.com.au<mailto:Bruce.Tonkin at melbourneit.com.au>> wrote:
Thanks for the link David.   I have attached the PDF of the testimony for convenience.

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin


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Hi Kavouss,

At this website is an archived video of the Senate hearing, and you scroll down (all the way under “Witness panel 1”) and click on each witness you can get access to their prepared remarks:

http://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Hearings&ContentRecord_id=683924ae-83d7-4bf4-922a-cdecb9556ba9&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=b06c39af-e033-4cba-9221-de668ca1978a

Best regards

David


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