[CCWG-ACCT] [community-finance] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update

parminder parminder at itforchange.net
Sun Aug 14 17:10:42 UTC 2016



On Sunday 14 August 2016 10:06 PM, John Curran wrote:
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>> More people do not use cars, or guns, or ...... the list is endless.
>> Does not mean that rules around them are not to be considered issues of
>> 'public governance'  just for that reason. The Internet today impacts
>> practically everyone, whether one uses it or not. Just as laws of
>> international trade effects everyone, whether one is directly carrying
>> out trade or not.. Excuse me to say it, but this is a very weak argument.
> Ah, you’ve transition now into actual laws, and I do agree that such is
> the realm of public governance.  Note that it is also the case that laws 
> are made by governments – something that ICANN is not.

ICANN makes considerable number of important laws of our online
existence. It, for instance, tells me that I cannot register the domain
name cocacola.biz even if it be yet unregistered ... It tells a betting
company in Antigua not to risk a gTLD in its name bec betting is illegal
in the US and its online business conducted under such a gTLD can
suddenly be brought down any day (bec ICANN insists of staying subject
to the US jurisdiction) .... A thousand such examples can be cited of
laws that ICANN makes and enforces with regard to our online existence.
Just by not calling them laws it does not make them not laws.. BTW,
ICANN does call them policies, and enforceable policies are laws... That
thing about if it quacks like  a duck.....

As I said in the last email, hidden powers are to be feared even more
than the declared ones....

parminder

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