[CCWG-ACCT] Attempt to summarize discussion regarding Mission and Contract
Malcolm Hutty
malcolm at linx.net
Wed Nov 11 18:20:45 UTC 2015
On 11/11/2015 17:32, Greg Shatan wrote:
> Based on Malcolm's explanations, here's a possible alternate formulation:
>
> *"ICANN shall not regulate web servers, mail servers and other devices
> that are located using the Internet's unique identifiers, or the content
> they carry."*
Web servers, mail servers and other devices are hardware. It's not
hardware that ICANN needs to be specifically prohibited from regulating,
but what is done using that hardware.
So the proper term is "web service" not "web server", and "other
services" not "other devices".
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