[CCWG-ACCT] On the definition of public interest

Carlos Raúl G. crg at isoc-cr.org
Wed Feb 18 18:24:46 UTC 2015


Dear Robin, Avri,

Prof. Scott Hempling, of Georgetown University who is  a specialist in regulatory law has a very good one. I know that the Internet is ver special and very different from 20th century public utilities, but sometimes  past experience does help.......

Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
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El feb 18, 2015, a las 12:02, Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org> escribió:

>>> "public interest consistent with human rights and within ICANN's scope."
> 
> 
> This is a good compromise and sufficiently addresses my concern that "public interest" alone is too vague and subject to numerous conflicting interpretations.
> 
> Thank you,
> Robin
> 
>> On Feb 18, 2015, at 9:56 AM, Carlos Raúl G. wrote:
>> 
>> I like It
>> Thanks 
>> 
>> Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
>> +506 8837 7176 (New Number)
>> Enviado desde mi iPhone
>> 
>>> El feb 18, 2015, a las 11:36, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> escribió:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>>>> On 18-Feb-15 11:51, "Carlos Raúl G." wrote:
>>>>> So perhaps we should be considering "public interest consistent with human rights."
>>>> 
>>>> Within ICANN narrowly define technical scope??!
>>> 
>>> Of course it needs to be in scope.  and yet that scope is as hard to define as public interest is.  For example, by my definition of 'technical', ICANN does almost nothing technical outside of IANA, unless you include IT..
>>> 
>>> But over the years the technical scope has been defined in an ICANN context to include all kinds of policy stuff that can be defined as technical in perhaps a legal, financial or organizational context.  The boarders on that definition are fuzzy at best.
>>> 
>>> But if we want to add further conditionalizing words, we could say
>>> 
>>> "public interest consistent with human rights and within ICANN's scope."
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