<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Grec</div><div>I fully agree with Seun.</div><div>We must raise this question legally and ask for a NEUTRAL LEGAL VIEW</div><div>There is désagrément on the matter.</div><div>Several person said, there is no possibility to Immune ICANN from US LAW </div><div>Others said .it has had a precedence.</div><div>This exchange of correspondence is totally counter productive and must be resolved properly.</div><div>I terrefort request Greg, to formulate the question/ view on the matter and after consultation with Co-Chair ask for an international Neutral  </div><div>Legal View .</div><div>Regards</div><div>Kavouss </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-02-25 10:43 GMT+01:00 Seun Ojedeji <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Feb 25, 2017 5:21 AM, &quot;parminder&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution"></span><blockquote class="m_-7570188045887343928quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
  
    
  
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    <p><font face="Verdana">Becky, thanks for your response and please
        see inline. </font><br>
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    <br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192);font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">
            Absent the statutory grant of authority found in California
            law (and the laws of other jurisdictions no doubt), the
            community powers are likely not enforceable. 
          </span></p>
      </div>
    </blockquote>
    <br></div>
    As argued in my previous email, based on an legal memo attached to
    an ICANN report, it is evident that ICANN can waive immunity with
    regard to operation of relevant California non profit law required
    for its accountability mechanism. I am happy to seek legal advice on
    this point. But from what looks apparent now, your above statement
    may not hold true.</span></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">SO: FWIW, Can we then derive a question from this for the legal to answer? I think it may be better we have something officially/formerly documented with regards to this, otherwise we will just keep coming back to it everytime. It will be good to be able to provide documentation is future to show that it&#39;s a matter that has been discussed and brought to a &quot;consensus based&quot; conclusion.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="m_-7570188045887343928quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div><div class="h5"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <br><div class="m_-7570188045887343928quoted-text">
    <br>
    <blockquote type="cite">
      <div class="m_-7570188045887343928m_218229017637347410WordSection1">
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192);font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192);font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192);font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">I
            am also confused about how one would reconcile the
            privileges and immunity approach with deliberately chosen
            language in the Bylaws.  Under the US International
            Organizations Immunities Act, ICANN would first have to be
            an “international organization” as defined in the Act thus: 
          </span><span style="background:white;color:rgb(0,112,192);font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">For
            the purposes of this subchapter, the term “international
            organization” means a public international organization in
            which the United States participates pursuant to any treaty
            or under the authority of any Act of Congress authorizing
            such participation or making an appropriation for such
            participation, and which shall have been designated by the
            President through appropriate Executive order as being
            entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities
            provided in this subchapter.”  22 U.S. Code 228.  The Swiss
            Host State Act, 2007, has similar requirements.  </span></p>
      </div>
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    <br></div>
    Yes, it needs action by both the Congress and the President of the
    US. The former will need to just amend some existing laws related to
    some international orgs and add ICANN somewhere in it. Simple work.
    And the President has to issue a decree under the Immunities Act. <br><div class="m_-7570188045887343928quoted-text">
    <br>
    <blockquote type="cite">
      <div class="m_-7570188045887343928m_218229017637347410WordSection1">
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:white;color:rgb(0,112,192);font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">ICANN
            is not a treaty-based organization, </span></p>
      </div>
    </blockquote>
    <br></div>
    This is not required. <br><div class="m_-7570188045887343928quoted-text">
    <blockquote type="cite">
      <div class="m_-7570188045887343928m_218229017637347410WordSection1">
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:white;color:rgb(0,112,192);font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">nor
            is it conducting work normally carried out by an
            intergovernmental organization.</span></p>
      </div>
    </blockquote>
    <br></div>
    As shown by Jorge, this is not true.<div class="m_-7570188045887343928quoted-text"><br>
    <br>
    <blockquote type="cite">
      <div class="m_-7570188045887343928m_218229017637347410WordSection1">
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:white;color:rgb(0,112,192);font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> 
            Turning it into a treaty-based organization </span></p>
      </div>
    </blockquote>
    <br></div>
    No need to turn it into treaty based org to get US immunity. <br><div class="m_-7570188045887343928quoted-text">
    <blockquote type="cite">
      <div class="m_-7570188045887343928m_218229017637347410WordSection1">
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:white;color:rgb(0,112,192);font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">would
            seem to me to violate the Bylaws-mandated Core Value that
            requires ICANN to
            <b><i>remain rooted in the private sector</i></b>. </span></p>
      </div>
    </blockquote>
    <br></div>
    There is a linguistic problem here. Private sector is understood
    differently in the US than almost everywhere else. In the US, it is
    just to be outside government, which ICANN is. Outside the US, it
    mostly mean for profit sector. ICANN is indeed outside
    government(s), and there is no proposal to change that. But it is
    also equally a non profit . That also I hope is not intended to be
    changed. <br>
    <br>
    In any case, whether non profit or for profit, everything is always
    subject  to some kind of governmental jurisdiction. Being so subject
    does not change its non profit or even for profit nature. So the
    point is really moot. <br><div class="m_-7570188045887343928quoted-text">
    <br>
    <blockquote type="cite">
      <div class="m_-7570188045887343928m_218229017637347410WordSection1">
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:white;color:rgb(0,112,192);font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">This
            language was contested on numerous occasions by members of
            the GAC, and the community repeatedly insisted on retaining
            this orientation.  I think that there can be little argument
            that the community affirmatively committed to maintaining
            this status through the Accountability work.  <br>
          </span></p>
      </div>
    </blockquote>
    <br></div>
    The community asked this group to consider the issue of US
    jurisdiction over ICANN. And a question can only be considered if it
    is open - -unless, sorry to use that word, we are all mutually and
    together fooling ourselves, and doing discussions that really have
    no meaning or purpose. I really hope this is not the case -
    -although, I must admit, despair often does arises that it may
    actually may be the case.<font color="#888888"><br>
    <br>
    parminder <br></font><div class="m_-7570188045887343928elided-text">
    <blockquote type="cite">
      <div class="m_-7570188045887343928m_218229017637347410WordSection1">
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:white;color:rgb(0,112,192);font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-7570188045887343928m_218229017637347410apple-converted-space"><span style="background:white;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">
            <a class="m_-7570188045887343928m_218229017637347410moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank">ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann<wbr>.org</a>
            [<a class="m_-7570188045887343928m_218229017637347410moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank">mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounc<wbr>es@icann.org</a>]
            <b>On Behalf Of </b>Seun Ojedeji<br>
            <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 14, 2017 1:43 PM<br>
            <b>To:</b> Greg Shatan <a class="m_-7570188045887343928m_218229017637347410moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com" target="_blank">&lt;gregshatanipc@gmail.com&gt;</a><br>
            <b>Cc:</b> ws2-jurisdiction
            <a class="m_-7570188045887343928m_218229017637347410moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org" target="_blank">&lt;ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org&gt;</a><br>
            <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ws2-jurisdiction] Blog post on ICANN&#39;s
            jurisdiction<u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
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            <div>
              <p class="MsoNormal">Sent from my LG G4<br>
                Kindly excuse brevity and typos<u></u><u></u></p>
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            <div>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
              <div>
                <p class="MsoNormal">On Feb 14, 2017 12:29 PM, &quot;Greg
                  Shatan&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com" target="_blank">gregshatanipc@gmail.com</a>&gt;
                  wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif">Seun,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
                    </div>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
                    </div>
                    <div>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">You
                          say that a &quot;Trump travel Ban . . . compared to</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"><br>
                            if a travel Ban is placed on Turkey where
                            ICANN has a hub. The former<br>
                            would have global effects on ICANN than the
                            latter.&quot; </span><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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                    <div>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">Can
                          you clarify how a travel ban into the US from
                          a list of countries would &quot;have global effects
                          on ICANN&quot; and a travel ban into Turkey from a
                          list of countries not have a similar type of
                          effect?  Is this just because more people will
                          want to travel to ICANN&#39;s operations in the US
                          than those in Turkey? 
                        </span><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal">SO: It&#39;s not really because more people
              &quot;want&quot; to, it&#39;s because for ICANN it may be prudent at
              times to have the meeting in the US. When I say meeting, I
              am not just referring to the 3 global meetings alone.<u></u><u></u></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <div>
              <div>
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                    <div>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">Why
                          is it a global effect on ICANN if it only
                          concerns a small number of countries?</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal">SO: Sometime ago I was reading an
              article mentioning whether I* organisations should cancel
              subsequent meetings in the US (even though I personally do
              not think it&#39;s worth it to cancel already planned Puerto
              Rico meeting) but imagine the global effects if such
              happen. Beyond that such action by US govt also cause
              unintended(or perhaps unnecessary) consequences/reactions.
              Like it won&#39;t be out of scope for an African govt who is
              already pissed off with .Africa[1] and second level 2
              character to also indicate the ban as an exhibit to drive
              a point. <u></u><u></u></p>
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          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal">Just checkout how many ICANN related
              articles that connects to the ban has been published
              lately so you think similar level of response would have
              happened globally if the travel ban happened in Turkey? I
              doubt. So it&#39;s not always about the few ban countries,
              it&#39;s about the global reaction.<u></u><u></u></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal">For clarity if ICANN were incorporated
              in Turkey and same banned happen, the global effect would
              have still be similar to that of the US at present. So the
              point is not that it may not have happened if ICANN was
              incorporated in Turkey (or Switzerland as Paul puts it)
              but the point is that it is unfair to say the effects to
              ICANN ORG/community in both scenarios is the same<u></u><u></u></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal">Regards<u></u><u></u></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal">1. Ofcourse I recognise there is not
              light at the end of the tunnel.<u></u><u></u></p>
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                          note that I personally do not support the
                          travel ban, nor do I minimize the effects it
                          has had and continues to have on citizens of
                          those countries.]</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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                                                <a href="tel:(917)%20816-6428" target="_blank" value="+19178166428">917-816-6428</a><br>
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Phone-to-Skype: <a href="tel:(646)%20845-9428" target="_blank" value="+16468459428">646-845-9428</a><br>
                                              </span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">gregshatanipc@gmail.com</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at
                          6:17 AM, Seun Ojedeji &lt;<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>&gt;
                          wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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                            <p class="MsoNormal">Thanks Nigel, I am not
                              asking about an overall immunity for ICANN
                              but I am talking about specific scenario
                              like the ones I have indicated. Maybe the
                              right word isn&#39;t immunity.<u></u><u></u></p>
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                              <p class="MsoNormal">Cheers!<u></u><u></u></p>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal">Sent from my LG G4<br>
                                  Kindly excuse brevity and typos<u></u><u></u></p>
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                                  <p class="MsoNormal">On Feb 14, 2017
                                    11:45 AM, &quot;Nigel Roberts&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:nigel@channelisles.net" target="_blank">nigel@channelisles.net</a>&gt;
                                    wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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                                    <p class="MsoNormal">I think you
                                      miss the point about immunity.<br>
                                      <br>
                                      It&#39;s means &quot;ICANN can do what it
                                      likes and can&#39;t be sued&quot;.<br>
                                      <br>
                                      <br>
                                      <br>
                                      On 14/02/17 09:23, Seun Ojedeji
                                      wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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                                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Hi,<br>
                                        <br>
                                        I am not a lawyer but it doesn&#39;t
                                        sound accurate to say that the
                                        effect<br>
                                        of the country of  (US) on ICANN
                                        is same with that of other<br>
                                        countries (including the ones
                                        hosting her regional hubs)
                                        because that is<br>
                                        what I think Paul may be
                                        implying here.<br>
                                        <br>
                                        As a simple example is a Trump
                                        travel Ban and the OFAC stuff
                                        compared to<br>
                                        if a travel Ban is placed on
                                        Turkey where ICANN has a hub.
                                        The former<br>
                                        would have global effects on
                                        ICANN than the latter. I for one
                                        would be<br>
                                        glad if there can be
                                        immunity/exemption for
                                        ICANN(used in literary<br>
                                        terms) in such scenarios<br>
                                        <br>
                                        Regards<br>
                                        <br>
                                        Sent from my LG G4<br>
                                        Kindly excuse brevity and typos<br>
                                        <br>
                                        On Feb 13, 2017 7:59 PM, &quot;Paul
                                        Rosenzweig&quot;<br>
                                        &lt;<a href="mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com" target="_blank">paul.rosenzweig@redbranchcons<wbr>ulting.com</a><br>
                                        &lt;mailto:<a href="mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com" target="_blank">paul.rosenzweig@redbra<wbr>nchconsulting.com</a>&gt;&gt;
                                        wrote:<br>
                                        <br>
                                            Yes, I refute the
                                        proposition because it is an
                                        alternate fact.  Or<br>
                                            put another way – it is
                                        wrong.____<br>
                                        <br>
                                            __ __<br>
                                        <br>
                                               The true fact is simple –
                                        by virture of doing business in
                                        France,<br>
                                            ICANN is subject to French
                                        law.  France’s privacy
                                        authorities might,<br>
                                            for example, attempt to get
                                        ICANN to follow their right to
                                        be<br>
                                            forgotten.  They would fail,
                                        I think, but that proposition is
                                        no<br>
                                            different in kind than the
                                        idea of US antitrust
                                        jurisdiction over<br>
                                            ICANN which will not change
                                        one iota if ICANN changes its<br>
                                            jurisdiction of
                                        incorporation.  As I have said
                                        before, the only way<br>
                                            in which place of
                                        jurisdiction matters
                                        significantly (or to use your<br>
                                            words is of a “different
                                        order” is regarding law relating
                                        to<br>
                                            corporate incorporation and
                                        governance.  As to that – e.g.
                                        the<br>
                                            implementation of ICANN’s
                                        actual corporate governance – it
                                        would<br>
                                            change significantly if
                                        ICANN moved.  But, as others
                                        have also<br>
                                            noted, the corporate law of
                                        California is vital to ICANN’s
                                        current<br>
                                            structure.____<br>
                                        <br>
                                            __ __<br>
                                        <br>
                                            As for your question about
                                        my professional life it is
                                        amusing –<br>
                                            because that is indeed what
                                        I do for a living and I have, in
                                        fact,<br>
                                            given exactly that advice to
                                        German businesses with
                                        operations in<br>
                                            the United States.  I tell
                                        them that if they want to avoid
                                        American<br>
                                            law (mostly law relating to
                                        cybersecurity) the only way to
                                        do so is<br>
                                            to avoid having a business
                                        presence in the US.  If they
                                        want to<br>
                                            forgo the market completely
                                        they can do so to avoid American
                                        law.<br>
                                            But otherwise they cannot. 
                                        And, I tell them the exact same
                                        thing<br>
                                            about French and Indian law
                                        as well.  In short, I do this
                                        for a<br>
                                            living and yes, I say
                                        exactly the same thing to paying
                                        clients.____<br>
                                        <br>
                                            __ __<br>
                                        <br>
                                            It is not me who is
                                        “falsifying facts” Paraminder. 
                                        You are making<br>
                                            assertions that have no
                                        actual basis in any law that I
                                        know of.<br>
                                            Repeatedly asserting them as
                                        “facts” does not make them
                                        so____<br>
                                        <br>
                                            __ __<br>
                                        <br>
                                            Paul____<br>
                                        <br>
                                            __ __<br>
                                        <br>
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                                            *From:*parminder [mailto:<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.<wbr>net</a><br>
                                            &lt;mailto:<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.<wbr>net</a>&gt;]<br>
                                            *Sent:* Sunday, February 12,
                                        2017 12:54 AM<br>
                                            *To:* Paul Rosenzweig &lt;<a href="mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com" target="_blank">paul.rosenzweig@redbranchcons<wbr>ulting.com</a><br>
                                            &lt;mailto:<a href="mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com" target="_blank">paul.rosenzweig@redbra<wbr>nchconsulting.com</a>&gt;&gt;;<br>
                                            <a href="mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org" target="_blank">ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org</a>
                                        &lt;mailto:<a href="mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org" target="_blank">ws2-jurisdiction@icann<wbr>.org</a>&gt;<br>
                                            *Subject:* Re:
                                        [Ws2-jurisdiction] Blog post on
                                        ICANN&#39;s jurisdiction____<br>
                                        <br>
                                            __ __<br>
                                        <br>
                                            __ __<br>
                                        <br>
                                            On Saturday 11 February 2017
                                        10:54 PM, Paul Rosenzweig
                                        wrote:____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                As we have repeatedly
                                        noted, the exact same thing is
                                        true of<br>
                                                ICANN’s being subject to
                                        the laws of India, France and
                                        any other<br>
                                                place it does business.
                                        ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                        <br>
                                            Paul, and you have missed
                                        the repeated response that of
                                        course this<br>
                                            is not true (and you know
                                        it) -- the implication of
                                        jurisdiction of<br>
                                            incorporation of a body, and
                                        its impact on its working, is of
                                        a<br>
                                            completely different order
                                        than that of the jurisdictions
                                        where it<br>
                                            may merely conduct some
                                        business. Do you refute this
                                        proposition?<br>
                                        <br>
                                            Would you in your
                                        professional life advice, say, a
                                        business<br>
                                            incorporated in Germany but
                                        with worldwide business
                                        footprint that<br>
                                            the application of German
                                        jurisdiction and laws on it --
                                        and the<br>
                                            real life implications of
                                        such application -- is more or
                                        less the<br>
                                            same as application of
                                        jurisdiction and laws of all
                                        counties where<br>
                                            it may conduct any business
                                        at all? I look forward to a
                                        clear and<br>
                                            unambiguous response to
                                        this. Thanks.<br>
                                        <br>
                                            If indeed we are to keep
                                        falsifying such basic facts,
                                        which everyone<br>
                                            knows well, and base our
                                        positions on that, there is no
                                        way we can<br>
                                            go anywhere with this sub
                                        group. We may as well close it
                                        up and let<br>
                                            the rapporteur write
                                        whatever report he may want to
                                        forward. No use<br>
                                            wasting time here in trying
                                        to &quot;prove&quot; and reprove and
                                        reprove basic<br>
                                            universally known legal and
                                        political facts.<br>
                                        <br>
                                        <br>
                                            ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                Your persistence in
                                        arguing a strawman Paraminder
                                        puts me in<br>
                                                mind of Amartya Sen.____<br>
                                        <br>
                                        <br>
                                            A perceptive book he wrote,
                                        but also speaks of Indian
                                        humility and<br>
                                            self-deprecation... Wonder
                                        why no one ever wrote &quot;The
                                        Hegemonic<br>
                                            American&quot;...<br>
                                        <br>
                                            parminder<br>
                                        <br>
                                        <br>
                                            ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                Paul Rosenzweig____<br>
                                        <br>
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paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsu<wbr>lting.com</a><br>
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                                        *On Behalf Of<br>
                                                *parminder<br>
                                                *Sent:* Saturday,
                                        February 11, 2017 8:46 AM<br>
                                                *To:* <a href="mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org" target="_blank">ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org</a>
                                        &lt;mailto:<a href="mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org" target="_blank">ws2-jurisdiction@icann<wbr>.org</a>&gt;<br>
                                                *Subject:* Re:
                                        [Ws2-jurisdiction] Blog post on
                                        ICANN&#39;s<br>
                                                jurisdiction____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                Nigel,____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                Thanks for your views.
                                        One gets faced by two kinds of
                                        arguments<br>
                                                in favour of keeping the
                                        jurisdictional status quo --
                                        which are<br>
                                                mutually exclusive.____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                (1) ICANN is somehow not
                                        subject to the whole range of US
                                        law<br>
                                                and executive powers, as
                                        any other US organisations is -
                                        or at<br>
                                                least it is somehow felt
                                        that US law and executive power
                                        will<br>
                                                never apply itself over
                                        ICANN functioning. ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                (2) As you argue, ICANN
                                        is indeed subject to all US laws
                                        and<br>
                                                powers, which might
                                        indeed be applied over it as
                                        necessary, but<br>
                                                this is a good and a
                                        desirable thing. ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                As we have no move
                                        forward at all, we must do it in
                                        stages and<br>
                                                remove some arguments
                                        off the table which we can
                                        mutually agree<br>
                                                to be untenable. So can
                                        we now agree that the view (1)
                                        above is<br>
                                                simply untrue and
                                        naively held by those who
                                        forward it. ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                We can now move to (2).
                                        First of all, this means that
                                        indeed US<br>
                                                law and executive can
                                        impinge upon ICANN&#39;s policy
                                        implementation<br>
                                                whenever it feels it
                                        valid to do so in pursuance of
                                        legitimate<br>
                                                US public interest.
                                        Meaning, If ICANN makes a policy
                                        and does<br>
                                                its implementation which
                                        is not in-accordance with US law
                                        or<br>
                                                legitimate US executive
                                        will, they can &quot;interfere&quot; can
                                        cause<br>
                                                those actions to be
                                        rolled back on the pain of
                                        state&#39;s coercive<br>
                                                action. This can be for
                                        instance regarding how and what<br>
                                                medicines and health
                                        related activities are
                                        considered ok by the<br>
                                                concerned US regulator.
                                        (Similar examples can be thought
                                        of in<br>
                                                practically every
                                        sector). Are you with me till
                                        here, because I<br>
                                                think I am only making
                                        logical deduction over what you
                                        seem to<br>
                                                agree with?____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                If so, this indeed
                                        establishes as a fact that US
                                        jurisdiction<br>
                                                can, as required,
                                        impinge upon (which seen from
                                        another vantage<br>
                                                is same as, interfere
                                        with) ICANN policies and policy<br>
                                                implementation.____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                Which makes the entire
                                        exercise of our questionnaire
                                        seeking<br>
                                                whether it can so happen
                                        rather needless. It of course
                                        can. ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                Lets then not argue or
                                        fight over that terrain, where
                                        we have<br>
                                                this agreement, about
                                        how law and executive power
                                        operates vis a<br>
                                                vis organisations
                                        subject to their jurisdiction.
                                        ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                That brings us to
                                        another terrain - that, as you
                                        argue, and<br>
                                                others have here, that
                                        it is right, appropriate and
                                        needed that<br>
                                                US law and legitimate
                                        executive power impinges upon
                                        ICANN<br>
                                                functioning as and when
                                        required, becuase it is
                                        important to<br>
                                                subject everything to
                                        the rule of law (and in your and
                                        many<br>
                                                other people&#39;s views,
                                        ICANN can practically ONLY be
                                        subject to<br>
                                                rule of US&#39;s law).____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                I am happy to discuss
                                        this part as long as we do not
                                        keep<br>
                                                drifting back to the
                                        earlier one whereby there really
                                        seems to<br>
                                                be an agreement among
                                        most of us that US law and
                                        legitimate<br>
                                                executive power can
                                        indeed impinge upon or
                                        &quot;interfere with&quot;<br>
                                                ICANN&#39;s policy or policy
                                        implementation work (even if
                                        many<br>
                                                consider such
                                        interference as being good for
                                        ICANN and public<br>
                                                interest) . ____<br>
                                        &gt; of the country of  (US) on
                                        ICANN is same with that of other<br>
                                        countries (including the ones
                                        hosting her regional hubs)
                                        because that is<br>
                                        what I think Paul may be
                                        implying here.<br>
                                        <br>
                                        As a simple example is a Trump
                                        travel Ban and the OFAC stuff
                                        compared to<br>
                                        if a travel Ban is placed on
                                        Turkey where ICANN has a hub.
                                        The former<br>
                                        would have global effects on
                                        ICANN than the latter. I for one
                                        would be<br>
                                        glad if there can be
                                        immunity/exemption for
                                        ICANN(used in literary<br>
                                        terms) in such scenarios<br>
                                        <br>
                                        Regards<br>
                                        <br>
                                        Sent from my LG G4<br>
                                        Kindly excuse brevity and typos<br>
                                        <br>
                                        On Feb 13, 2017 7:59 PM, &quot;Paul
                                        Rosenzweig&quot;<br>
                                        &lt;<a href="mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com" target="_blank">paul.rosenzweig@redbranchcons<wbr>ulting.com</a><br>
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                                        wrote:<br>
                                        <br>
                                            Yes, I refute the
                                        proposition because it is an
                                        alternate fact.  Or<br>
                                            put another way – it is
                                        wrong.____<br>
                                        <br>
                                            __ __<br>
                                        <br>
                                               The true fact is simple –
                                        by virture of doing business in
                                        France,<br>
                                            ICANN is subject to French
                                        law.  France’s privacy
                                        authorities might,<br>
                                            for example, attempt to get
                                        ICANN to follow their right to
                                        be<br>
                                            forgotten.  They would fail,
                                        I think, but that proposition is
                                        no<br>
                                            different in kind than the
                                        idea of US antitrust
                                        jurisdiction over<br>
                                            ICANN which will not change
                                        one iota if ICANN changes its<br>
                                            jurisdiction of
                                        incorporation.  As I have said
                                        before, the only way<br>
                                            in which place of
                                        jurisdiction matters
                                        significantly (or to use your<br>
                                            words is of a “different
                                        order” is regarding law relating
                                        to<br>
                                            corporate incorporation and
                                        governance.  As to that – e.g.
                                        the<br>
                                            implementation of ICANN’s
                                        actual corporate governance – it
                                        would<br>
                                            change significantly if
                                        ICANN moved.  But, as others
                                        have also<br>
                                            noted, the corporate law of
                                        California is vital to ICANN’s
                                        current<br>
                                            structure.____<br>
                                        <br>
                                            __ __<br>
                                        <br>
                                            As for your question about
                                        my professional life it is
                                        amusing –<br>
                                            because that is indeed what
                                        I do for a living and I have, in
                                        fact,<br>
                                            given exactly that advice to
                                        German businesses with
                                        operations in<br>
                                            the United States.  I tell
                                        them that if they want to avoid
                                        American<br>
                                            law (mostly law relating to
                                        cybersecurity) the only way to
                                        do so is<br>
                                            to avoid having a business
                                        presence in the US.  If they
                                        want to<br>
                                            forgo the market completely
                                        they can do so to avoid American
                                        law.<br>
                                            But otherwise they cannot. 
                                        And, I tell them the exact same
                                        thing<br>
                                            about French and Indian law
                                        as well.  In short, I do this
                                        for a<br>
                                            living and yes, I say
                                        exactly the same thing to paying
                                        clients.____<br>
                                        <br>
                                            __ __<br>
                                        <br>
                                            It is not me who is
                                        “falsifying facts” Paraminder. 
                                        You are making<br>
                                            assertions that have no
                                        actual basis in any law that I
                                        know of.<br>
                                            Repeatedly asserting them as
                                        “facts” does not make them
                                        so____<br>
                                        <br>
                                            __ __<br>
                                        <br>
                                            Paul____<br>
                                        <br>
                                            __ __<br>
                                        <br>
                                            Paul Rosenzweig____<br>
                                        <br>
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                                            __ __<br>
                                        <br>
                                            *From:*parminder [mailto:<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.<wbr>net</a><br>
                                            &lt;mailto:<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.<wbr>net</a>&gt;]<br>
                                            *Sent:* Sunday, February 12,
                                        2017 12:54 AM<br>
                                            *To:* Paul Rosenzweig &lt;<a href="mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com" target="_blank">paul.rosenzweig@redbranchcons<wbr>ulting.com</a><br>
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                                            <a href="mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org" target="_blank">ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org</a>
                                        &lt;mailto:<a href="mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org" target="_blank">ws2-jurisdiction@icann<wbr>.org</a>&gt;<br>
                                            *Subject:* Re:
                                        [Ws2-jurisdiction] Blog post on
                                        ICANN&#39;s jurisdiction____<br>
                                        <br>
                                            __ __<br>
                                        <br>
                                            __ __<br>
                                        <br>
                                            On Saturday 11 February 2017
                                        10:54 PM, Paul Rosenzweig
                                        wrote:____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                As we have repeatedly
                                        noted, the exact same thing is
                                        true of<br>
                                                ICANN’s being subject to
                                        the laws of India, France and
                                        any other<br>
                                                place it does business.
                                        ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                        <br>
                                            Paul, and you have missed
                                        the repeated response that of
                                        course this<br>
                                            is not true (and you know
                                        it) -- the implication of
                                        jurisdiction of<br>
                                            incorporation of a body, and
                                        its impact on its working, is of
                                        a<br>
                                            completely different order
                                        than that of the jurisdictions
                                        where it<br>
                                            may merely conduct some
                                        business. Do you refute this
                                        proposition?<br>
                                        <br>
                                            Would you in your
                                        professional life advice, say, a
                                        business<br>
                                            incorporated in Germany but
                                        with worldwide business
                                        footprint that<br>
                                            the application of German
                                        jurisdiction and laws on it --
                                        and the<br>
                                            real life implications of
                                        such application -- is more or
                                        less the<br>
                                            same as application of
                                        jurisdiction and laws of all
                                        counties where<br>
                                            it may conduct any business
                                        at all? I look forward to a
                                        clear and<br>
                                            unambiguous response to
                                        this. Thanks.<br>
                                        <br>
                                            If indeed we are to keep
                                        falsifying such basic facts,
                                        which everyone<br>
                                            knows well, and base our
                                        positions on that, there is no
                                        way we can<br>
                                            go anywhere with this sub
                                        group. We may as well close it
                                        up and let<br>
                                            the rapporteur write
                                        whatever report he may want to
                                        forward. No use<br>
                                            wasting time here in trying
                                        to &quot;prove&quot; and reprove and
                                        reprove basic<br>
                                            universally known legal and
                                        political facts.<br>
                                        <br>
                                        <br>
                                            ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                Your persistence in
                                        arguing a strawman Paraminder
                                        puts me in<br>
                                                mind of Amartya Sen.____<br>
                                        <br>
                                        <br>
                                            A perceptive book he wrote,
                                        but also speaks of Indian
                                        humility and<br>
                                            self-deprecation... Wonder
                                        why no one ever wrote &quot;The
                                        Hegemonic<br>
                                            American&quot;...<br>
                                        <br>
                                            parminder<br>
                                        <br>
                                        <br>
                                            ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                Paul Rosenzweig____<br>
                                        <br>
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paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsu<wbr>lting.com</a><br>
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                                                *parminder<br>
                                                *Sent:* Saturday,
                                        February 11, 2017 8:46 AM<br>
                                                *To:* <a href="mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org" target="_blank">ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org</a>
                                        &lt;mailto:<a href="mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org" target="_blank">ws2-jurisdiction@icann<wbr>.org</a>&gt;<br>
                                                *Subject:* Re:
                                        [Ws2-jurisdiction] Blog post on
                                        ICANN&#39;s<br>
                                                jurisdiction____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                Nigel,____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                Thanks for your views.
                                        One gets faced by two kinds of
                                        arguments<br>
                                                in favour of keeping the
                                        jurisdictional status quo --
                                        which are<br>
                                                mutually exclusive.____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                (1) ICANN is somehow not
                                        subject to the whole range of US
                                        law<br>
                                                and executive powers, as
                                        any other US organisations is -
                                        or at<br>
                                                least it is somehow felt
                                        that US law and executive power
                                        will<br>
                                                never apply itself over
                                        ICANN functioning. ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                (2) As you argue, ICANN
                                        is indeed subject to all US laws
                                        and<br>
                                                powers, which might
                                        indeed be applied over it as
                                        necessary, but<br>
                                                this is a good and a
                                        desirable thing. ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                As we have no move
                                        forward at all, we must do it in
                                        stages and<br>
                                                remove some arguments
                                        off the table which we can
                                        mutually agree<br>
                                                to be untenable. So can
                                        we now agree that the view (1)
                                        above is<br>
                                                simply untrue and
                                        naively held by those who
                                        forward it. ____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                We can now move to (2).
                                        First of all, this means that
                                        indeed US<br>
                                                law and executive can
                                        impinge upon ICANN&#39;s policy
                                        implementation<br>
                                                whenever it feels it
                                        valid to do so in pursuance of
                                        legitimate<br>
                                                US public interest.
                                        Meaning, If ICANN makes a policy
                                        and does<br>
                                                its implementation which
                                        is not in-accordance with US law
                                        or<br>
                                                legitimate US executive
                                        will, they can &quot;interfere&quot; can
                                        cause<br>
                                                those actions to be
                                        rolled back on the pain of
                                        state&#39;s coercive<br>
                                                action. This can be for
                                        instance regarding how and what<br>
                                                medicines and health
                                        related activities are
                                        considered ok by the<br>
                                                concerned US regulator.
                                        (Similar examples can be thought
                                        of in<br>
                                                practically every
                                        sector). Are you with me till
                                        here, because I<br>
                                                think I am only making
                                        logical deduction over what you
                                        seem to<br>
                                                agree with?____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                If so, this indeed
                                        establishes as a fact that US
                                        jurisdiction<br>
                                                can, as required,
                                        impinge upon (which seen from
                                        another vantage<br>
                                                is same as, interfere
                                        with) ICANN policies and policy<br>
                                                implementation.____<br>
                                        <br>
                                                Which makes the entire
                                        exercise of our questionnaire
                                        seeking<br>
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