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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Malcolm Hutty<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 04, 2015 10:59 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Alan Greenberg; Burr, Becky; Accountability Community; Andrew Sullivan; iab@iab.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CCWG-ACCT] WP2 Issues from last night's call<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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On 04/11/2015 14:17, Alan Greenberg wrote:<br>
> In the regulatory section, I would still like to see language that<br>
> explicitly says that the unique identifiers themselves are deemed to not<br>
> be "content".<br>
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Alan,<br>
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If you read the clause carefully, you will see that it does not say that<br>
ICANN cannot regulate Internet content; that's just a loose paraphrasing<br>
some people have been using in conversation.<br>
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Instead, it says that ICANN "shall not regulate<br>
services that use the Internet's unique identifiers, or the content that<br>
such services carry or provide."<br>
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So the target of that exclusion is not "content" but "services" and "the<br>
content that such services carry or provide". This neatly avoids the<br>
question of whether domain names are content, because even if they are,<br>
they are still outside the reach of that exclusion.<br>
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Malcolm.<br>
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