[Ws2-jurisdiction] RES: RES: RES: ISSUE - unilateral jurisdiction of one country over ICANN

[Mueller, Milton L]

We formulate it as a collateral damage argument. The DNS root is an essential facility to the functioning of the global Internet, and it is better for people in a sanctioned country (most of whom are innocent parties) to have Internet access. Taking away Internet access harms the general public more than it harms the sanction targets. 

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> bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Nigel Roberts
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2017 8:29 AM
> To: ws2-jurisdiction at icann.org
> Subject: Re: [Ws2-jurisdiction] RES: RES: RES: ISSUE - unilateral jurisdiction of
> one country over ICANN
> 
> It was a genuine comment.
> 
> If you are making an application for a General Licence you will have to
> formulate it quite differently than "we don't like the USA foreign policy" since
> it is the USA that will accept or decline the application.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 21/08/17 12:52, parminder wrote:
> >
> > On Monday 21 August 2017 04:58 PM, Nigel Roberts wrote:
> >> I'm sure that formulation will go down well on the OFAC General
> >> License application form, and with Ted Cruz .  . .
> >
> > Nigel, I will respectfully urge you to give up your cryptic one
> > liners, most of which we from the non english non-western world are
> > unable to understand. Neither does the sarcasm contained therein
> > contribute to what is a very serious exercise of global responsibility
> > that we are trying to undertake here. Please be very clear and
> > explicit in whatever you want to say, and try simple and plain
> > english, with fewer idioms and situated facts rooted in western culture.....
> >
> > As for what I understand from your above remark, if your suggestion is
> > that we, of the non US world, play nice and deferential to every quirk
> > and detail of the US nation and state, let me make it very clear that
> > I have no such intention. I much respect the US nation and state, but
> > then so do I respect every other country, and the democratic rights of
> > their citizens.
> >
> > parminder
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 21/08/17 12:08, parminder wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Monday 21 August 2017 04:29 PM, Nigel Roberts wrote:
> >>>> And what will ICANN then be immune from?
> >>>
> >>> Milton put it nicely, to quote, "...from the vagaries of U.S.
> >>> foreign policy or other laws and policies that would circumvent
> >>> ICANN's accountability to its global MS community."
> >>>>
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