[CCWG-ACCT] Testimony from Fadi Chehade at the USA Senate hearing

[Rahul Sharma]

In his testimony, Fadi said “*ICANN has its global headquarters in the
United States, and there are no plans for that to change*.” When I met Fadi
two days back in New Delhi, he restated that now is not the time for ICANN
to move out of US; instead let's us all focus on stewardship transition. That
means ICANN will continue to remain subject to US laws and jurisdiction,
and ICANN even isn’t even considering propositions made by several to move
ICANN out of US. Also as far as I am aware, the working group on ICANN
Accountability (CCWG), is also not debating on this particular aspect.



My question is a) What are the Interest of ICANN in continuing to remain
subject to US jurisdiction and US laws? And b) If ICANN is to truly emerge
as a global institution, and to change the perception of other nation
states and stakeholder over USG special relation with ICANN, don’t you
think ICANN should move out of US, and ICANN & its functions should be
subject to global laws, not state of California laws?


Look forward to views of members. It is really an important issue that
should be discussed.


Best Regards,

Rahul Sharma

On 6 March 2015 at 02:57, Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin at melbourneit.com.au>
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>  Thanks for the link David.   I have attached the PDF of the testimony
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> At this website is an archived video of the Senate hearing, and you scroll
> down (all the way under “Witness panel 1”) and click on each witness you
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> http://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Hearings&ContentRecord_id=683924ae-83d7-4bf4-922a-cdecb9556ba9&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=b06c39af-e033-4cba-9221-de668ca1978a
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