<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="">On Jul 9, 2016, at 4:50 AM, Schweighofer Erich <<a href="mailto:erich.schweighofer@univie.ac.at" class="">erich.schweighofer@univie.ac.at</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">ICANN cannot determine the Global Public Interest alone, that is the work of the international law community world-wide, taking into account present methodology for developing customary international law. I am working on a study on that because I find this concept strong enough to act as a mediator between so different interests of international community in its now different forms – states, civil society, business etc. but also takes into account present major stakeholders like state or inter-governmental international organisations. In my humble opinion, it is the phrase for respect of international law for new international actors on the global plane like ICANN. Besides the regulatory concept of this term, the other elements of adjudication and enforcement should be not forgotten.</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>To the extent that there is “international law” that is germane to ICANN’s activities, </div><div>one would expect participants that are familiar with such law (and its relevance to a</div><div>particular policy under consideration) to inform the community in the normal course</div><div>of policy development. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>The community, via the structures of ICANN, is certainly free to determine how ICANN </div><div>should "pursue the charitable and public purposes of lessening the burdens of government </div><div>and promoting the global public interest in the operational stability of the Internet”, and </div><div>this includes achieving an appropriate outcome after thoughtful consideration of all </div><div>participants views. If that outcome somehow differs from a magical and singular </div><div>"Global Public Interest” that is rooted in international law, then so be. The latter has, </div><div>as you appropriately observe, its own element of enforcement completely orthogonal</div><div>to ICANN which may be readily utilized in the elusive case of actual global alignment </div><div>in international law. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>/John</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Disclaimer: my views alone - please recycle these electrons when done with them.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>