<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear All,</div><div>It is good that Grec and Milton speak the same language</div><div>Kavouss </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-10-17 21:07 GMT+02:00 Mueller, Milton L <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:milton@gatech.edu" target="_blank">milton@gatech.edu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Good answer, Greg. Glad you had the time and patience to wade through all that.
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<p class="m_6043493856865192676gmail-m-2654243898812256234msolistparagraph">5. What if the FCC revises its decision of forbearance about its authority over Internet addressing system (as it did on the issue of whether Internet was title one or title two)?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_6043493856865192676gmail-m-2654243898812256234msolistparagraph"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">MM: This would require legislation, because nothing in the existing Communications Act gives the FCC any authority over DNS
or IP addressing. So this is just another example of “what if the US legislates to regulate ICANN in some way?” Which of course is a risk if ICANN were in ANY jurisdiction.
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is not true -- in the same way as, without any new legislation, FCC revised its stand on forbearance over seeing Internet as a telecom utility, and made it title 2.
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">You really shouldn’t try to lecture US telecom policy people on our own laws and regulatory processes. Put simply, Title 1 and Title 2 were in the law, and it
was within the FCC’s authority to classify broadband internet service providers as an unregulated info service or as a regulated common carrier. Here’s the problem for you: ICANN, DNS and IP addresses are NOT mentioned in the law in any way, thus new legislation
would have to be passed for the FCC to do anything. And as I pointed out before, legislation to control or regulate ICANN could happen wherever it is located.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Dr. Milton L Mueller<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Professor,
<a href="http://spp.gatech.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">School of Public Policy</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Georgia Institute of Technology<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Internet Governance Project
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="http://internetgovernance.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">http://internetgovernance.org/</span></a>
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