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<p><font face="Verdana">As to what does the final report and
decisions of the CCWG on jurisdiction related issues mean for
the world, here is a hot-off-the press sample.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">Iran is being taken off global financial
grid, just because one US President says so. <br>
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<p><font face="Verdana"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1450521/swift-suspends-iran-banks">https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1450521/swift-suspends-iran-banks</a></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">and hear the threat</font></p>
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float: none;">"I promise you that doing business with Iran in
defiance of our sanctions will ultimately be a much more painful
business decision than pulling out of Iran and being connected
to Iran entirely," says the US Secretary of State ...
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.firstpost.com/business/us-warns-of-severe-swift-penalties-for-firms-continuing-sanctionable-commercial-transactions-with-iran-5509241.html">https://www.firstpost.com/business/us-warns-of-severe-swift-penalties-for-firms-continuing-sanctionable-commercial-transactions-with-iran-5509241.html</a></span></p>
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float: none;">Simply bec though democrats under Obama were fine
with getting along with Iran, the new President Trump is not,
and so it is not even a bi-partisan US decision, but then Iran
is to be suffocated by de-linking it from global financial
grids. <br>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
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float: none;">The question for the IG-ians is: Why cant or wont
the US do the same for the Internet, its DNS and routing
systems? That isnt much more drastic than throwing a country off
global financial grids . US, as any country in its position
would perhaps do in self interest, is just being nice on IG and
digital issues becuase this is an advance area where global
structures and advantages are being built and it does not want
to rock the boat at this formative stage till its dominance and
controls are unassailable. ]</span></p>
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float: none;">Once things settle down, you'd find similar
threats and sanctions with regard to DNS and routing systems of
the Internet -- to which problematic future situation this group
has now contributed -- and is indeed clapping and celebrating
it.. ( But perhaps someone here can explain why it wont happen
with the Internet. )<br>
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float: none;">Would those who have assiduously promoted and
curated the US centred and controlled global IG model, and now
have proudly concluded that there is no need to do anything
about the jurisdictional controls under which some key
infrastructural aspects of the global Internet operates,
explain? If indeed they think they owe any explanation to anyone
at all. That would be accountability, given that this is CCWG -
Accountability. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 30/10/18 10:18 AM, parminder wrote:<br>
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Turcotte wrote:<br>
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style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">We are pleased
to inform you that all the Chartering Organizations
have approved the WS 2 recommendations by the end of
ICANN 63.</span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">The text of
the various approvals can be found in the attached
document. Please note that the GAC approved all the
recommendations with the exception of the Jurisdiction
recommendations which it did not approve or reject. </span></p>
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<p>One is glad that the world was was saved the ignominy of its
governments formally accepting that it is fine that one country
should keep ruling over a key global infrastructure. Also, good
that the report itself notes that the group could not fully
agree on what issues of jurisdiction were really to be covered
by it, and that some of them need to be discussed and sorted out
in the future. <br>
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<p>This is a very important conceptual and in-principle win for
global democracy, and democratic rule of law -- if just a
rearguard defensive action. The credit for it almost exclusively
goes to the valiant and intelligent Brazilian diplomats
involved in the process, whom I congratulate and thank heartily.
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<p>Meanwhile, one does greatly regret that a once-in-decades
chance to make ICANN truly globally democratic (as was in fact
called for by NetMundial Conference) has been missed. As the
global Internet is beginning to split in cold war like zones and
shells (as also<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.businessinsider.in/Googles-ex-CEO-Eric-Schmidt-says-the-internet-will-split-in-two-by-2028/articleshow/65900060.cms">
claimed by no less that Eric Schmidt </a>), lack of globally
democratic IG structures will need to share their considerable
responsibility for this dangerous slide. We could have done
something here to try and make things better, but dominant
interests prevailed once again. History will, unfortunately,
look back on this process as a missed opportunity. <br>
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<p>parminder<br>
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Co-Chairs will be transmitting the WS2 recommendations
to the ICANN Board for approval and implementation.</span></p>
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updates to this list as the process for approval by
the Board and implementation by ICANN progress.</span></p>
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8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">Thank you
again to everyone who contributed to this work over
the past two years or so. It is a great accomplishment
to be able to forward the proposals on to the ICANN
board with the broad support of the chartering
organizations.</span></p>
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CCWG-Accountability Co-Chairs</span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">Thomas,
Jordan, Tijani</span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">Bernard
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style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">ICANN Staff
Support to the CCWG-Accountabilit WS2</span></p>
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