<p dir="ltr">"Any stable jurisdiction where the corporate law provides suitable accountability would do."</p>
<p dir="ltr">This is the crux of the argument regarding jurisdiction. Until advocates of ICANN relocation can identify a superior jurisdiction acceptable to all, the question is moot and should be tabled with Kavous's and Parminder's objections noted.</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Dec 29, 2016, 4:50 PM Kavouss Arasteh <<a href="mailto:kavouss.arasteh@gmail.com">kavouss.arasteh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">Dear Professor,</div><div class="gmail_msg">You put too much emphasis on private .</div><div class="gmail_msg">Please read Bylaws Core value and the R9ole of Governments </div><div class="gmail_msg">Regards</div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">Kavouss </div></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">2016-12-29 23:01 GMT+01:00 Mueller, Milton L <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:milton@gatech.edu" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">milton@gatech.edu</a>></span>:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt" class="gmail_msg">Milton, since you seem to so very clear about everything, and on a crusade to correct everyone's confusions</span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" class="gmail_msg">MM: Oh dear, I’ve been called a “crusader.” (It almost made me fall off my horse.)<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt" class="gmail_msg">can you give us an example of such "jurisdiction that does not involve national borders at all", without it implying an agreement reached among states. Are you promoting US jurisdiction as such
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<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" class="gmail_msg">MM: ICANN was based on a strategy of globalization through private law. In order to avoid jurisdictional fragmentation of the domain name system, it created a global governance agency based on private contracts. Of course as a private
corp ICANN has to be incorporated somewhere, in this case for historical reasons it was the US. It then issues private contracts that apply anywhere, like other multinationals. It does not have to be incorporated in the US to follow this strategy. Any stable
jurisdiction where the corporate law provides suitable accountability would do. So the short answer to your typically manipulative question is no, I am not promoting “US jurisdiction as such,” I am calling attention to the rationale behind the original decision
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