[CCWG-ACCT] The Economist | A virtual turf war: The scramble for .africa

[Jordan Carter]

I may have missed something, Parminder, but isn't it a plus rather than a
negative for ICANN accountability that process errors can be appealed and
the company held to account for them?

Jordan

On 19 June 2016 at 07:26, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

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> On Sunday 19 June 2016 04:13 AM, Paul Rosenzweig wrote:
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> The Economist | A virtual turf war: The scramble for .africa
> http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21700661-lawyers-california-are-denying-africans-their-own-domain-scramble?frsc=dg%7Cd
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> Not that this fact is being discovered now, but it still is the simplest
> and clearest proof that US jurisdiction over ICANN's policy processes and
> decisions is absolutely untenable. Either the US makes a special legal
> provision unilaterally foregoing judicial, legislative and executive
> jurisdiction over ICANN policy functions, or the normal route of ICANN's
> incorporation under international law is taken, making ICANN an
> international organisation under international law, and protected from US
> jurisdiction under a host country agreement.
>
> parminder
>
> Paul Rosenzweig
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