<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Certainly!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">this is another memorable piece on regulation by some At large members back in the times of ATRT2</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-atrt2-02apr13/msg00004.html" class="">http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-atrt2-02apr13/msg00004.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 3, 2015, at 2:15 AM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <<a href="mailto:el@lisse.na" class="">el@lisse.na</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">I too seem to recall seeing in early NTIA (or other) documents<br class="">somewhere that ICANN was to be considered a regulator.<br class=""><br class="">el<br class=""><br class="">On 2015-11-03 08:37, Christopher Wilkinson wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Well, they are entitled to their opinion, but historically, they are<br class="">mistaken.<br class=""><br class="">That was the basis on which the EU bought into the ICANN concept<br class="">in the first place.<br class="">Also there is clear precedent that ICANN has acted as a<br class="">'regulator' of the DNS market. e.g. structural separation, price<br class="">cap, conditions of Registrar competition, etc.<br class=""><br class="">CW<br class=""><br class="">On 03 Nov 2015, at 07:18, Greg Shatan <<a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com" class="">gregshatanipc@gmail.com</a><br class=""><<a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com" class="">mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I don't disagree with you Christopher.<br class=""><br class="">But some people would like to avoid considering ICANN a regulator<br class="">or self-regulator more broadly, which I think it can be<br class="">classified as.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></blockquote>[...]<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org" class="">Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org</a><br class="">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>