<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">Oliver / Eric</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">I thought your scenario referred to Verisign which operates IANA ??? If this is not correct, I need to correct my response against this scenario</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy" target="_blank">Sivasubramanian M</a></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ocl@gih.com" target="_blank">ocl@gih.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hello Siva and Eric,<br>
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let me try and explain quickly:<span class=""><br>
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<div>On 14/01/2015 20:43, Eric
Brunner-Williams wrote:<br>
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Siva,<br>
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Thanks for the clarification.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">... this imaginary scenario of a threat of
litigation from the present IANA operator.</blockquote>
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In this scenario, who is ICANN suing?<br>
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If a Contract Co. was in place, the reallocation of the contract to
another operator would likely trigger the existing contract holder,
ICANN at present, to sue the Contract Co. In another scenario, any
organisation could sue the Contract Co. to hinder its operation.<span class=""><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Olivier
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s 26, 27, 28 as well as 33 among a few others</div>
. He would be in a better position to clarify. The message is
copied to him.
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I look forward to his response, if any. Again, as a personal
courtesy.<br>
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PRT => MRT - nomenclature has evolved since I worked on the
scenarios.<br>
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26: A law is passed or a country gets a court to order an action
that bypasses any process in place. An example of such bypassing
(but unrelated to the IANA functions) is the closing of .COM domains
by the FBI of Web sites that are hosted in another country.<br>
27: pretty explicit. Also - if an MRT was not under the legal
umbrella of any organisation, individual MRT members would be liable
to litigation on an individual basis. So physical threat is not the
only threat.<br>
28: quite explicit<br>
29: Independent Panels have not fared well in the ICANN world. For
an example of terrible panel decisions, see the visual similarity
panels where .COM was deemed to be confusingly similar to .CAM by
one panel and not confusingly similar to .CAM by another panel.<br>
33: the question is if MRT is not a legal body or within a legal
body how does it get an independent Contract Co. to abide by its
instructions when Contract Co. decides to ignore it<br>
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I've responded to the numbers listed but would be happy to clarify
any other scenario if needed.<br>
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Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier<br>
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