[Ws2-jurisdiction] Blog post on ICANN's jurisdiction
Phil Corwin
psc at vlaw-dc.com
Tue Feb 14 11:32:23 UTC 2017
In regard to President Trump's proposed temporary travel restrictions, the fact that they have been enjoined by US Courts illustrates that ICANN is well placed in a nation subject to rule of law and separation of powers.
So far as OFAC restrictions aimed at preventing business transactions with criminal and terrorist organizations, ICANN has indicated that it can request exemptions and that when it has done so they have been granted (at least that is my recollection).
Finally, and once again, arguments that ICANN should be immune not just from US jurisdiction but from the laws of any nation state are in effect positing that ICANN should be an IGO with broad quasi-sovereign immunity. That would be both contrary to the aim of the transition as well as contrary to effective accountability, which can only occur when Bylaws transgressions can be adjudicated in court if internal mechanisms fail.
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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't immunity.
Cheers!
Sent from my LG G4
Kindly excuse brevity and typos
On Feb 14, 2017 11:45 AM, "Nigel Roberts" <nigel at channelisles.net<mailto:nigel at channelisles.net>> wrote:
I think you miss the point about immunity.
It's means "ICANN can do what it likes and can't be sued".
On 14/02/17 09:23, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
Hi,
I am not a lawyer but it doesn't sound accurate to say that the effect
of the country of (US) on ICANN is same with that of other
countries (including the ones hosting her regional hubs) because that is
what I think Paul may be implying here.
As a simple example is a Trump travel Ban and the OFAC stuff compared to
if a travel Ban is placed on Turkey where ICANN has a hub. The former
would have global effects on ICANN than the latter. I for one would be
glad if there can be immunity/exemption for ICANN(used in literary
terms) in such scenarios
Regards
Sent from my LG G4
Kindly excuse brevity and typos
On Feb 13, 2017 7:59 PM, "Paul Rosenzweig"
<paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com<mailto:paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com>
<mailto:paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com<mailto:paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com>>> wrote:
Yes, I refute the proposition because it is an alternate fact. Or
put another way – it is wrong.____
__ __
The true fact is simple – by virture of doing business in France,
ICANN is subject to French law. France’s privacy authorities might,
for example, attempt to get ICANN to follow their right to be
forgotten. They would fail, I think, but that proposition is no
different in kind than the idea of US antitrust jurisdiction over
ICANN which will not change one iota if ICANN changes its
jurisdiction of incorporation. As I have said before, the only way
in which place of jurisdiction matters significantly (or to use your
words is of a “different order” is regarding law relating to
corporate incorporation and governance. As to that – e.g. the
implementation of ICANN’s actual corporate governance – it would
change significantly if ICANN moved. But, as others have also
noted, the corporate law of California is vital to ICANN’s current
structure.____
__ __
As for your question about my professional life it is amusing –
because that is indeed what I do for a living and I have, in fact,
given exactly that advice to German businesses with operations in
the United States. I tell them that if they want to avoid American
law (mostly law relating to cybersecurity) the only way to do so is
to avoid having a business presence in the US. If they want to
forgo the market completely they can do so to avoid American law.
But otherwise they cannot. And, I tell them the exact same thing
about French and Indian law as well. In short, I do this for a
living and yes, I say exactly the same thing to paying clients.____
__ __
It is not me who is “falsifying facts” Paraminder. You are making
assertions that have no actual basis in any law that I know of.
Repeatedly asserting them as “facts” does not make them so____
__ __
Paul____
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On Saturday 11 February 2017 10:54 PM, Paul Rosenzweig wrote:____
As we have repeatedly noted, the exact same thing is true of
ICANN’s being subject to the laws of India, France and any other
place it does business. ____
Paul, and you have missed the repeated response that of course this
is not true (and you know it) -- the implication of jurisdiction of
incorporation of a body, and its impact on its working, is of a
completely different order than that of the jurisdictions where it
may merely conduct some business. Do you refute this proposition?
Would you in your professional life advice, say, a business
incorporated in Germany but with worldwide business footprint that
the application of German jurisdiction and laws on it -- and the
real life implications of such application -- is more or less the
same as application of jurisdiction and laws of all counties where
it may conduct any business at all? I look forward to a clear and
unambiguous response to this. Thanks.
If indeed we are to keep falsifying such basic facts, which everyone
knows well, and base our positions on that, there is no way we can
go anywhere with this sub group. We may as well close it up and let
the rapporteur write whatever report he may want to forward. No use
wasting time here in trying to "prove" and reprove and reprove basic
universally known legal and political facts.
____
Your persistence in arguing a strawman Paraminder puts me in
mind of Amartya Sen.____
A perceptive book he wrote, but also speaks of Indian humility and
self-deprecation... Wonder why no one ever wrote "The Hegemonic
American"...
parminder
____
____
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*Subject:* Re: [Ws2-jurisdiction] Blog post on ICANN's
jurisdiction____
____
Nigel,____
Thanks for your views. One gets faced by two kinds of arguments
in favour of keeping the jurisdictional status quo -- which are
mutually exclusive.____
(1) ICANN is somehow not subject to the whole range of US law
and executive powers, as any other US organisations is - or at
least it is somehow felt that US law and executive power will
never apply itself over ICANN functioning. ____
(2) As you argue, ICANN is indeed subject to all US laws and
powers, which might indeed be applied over it as necessary, but
this is a good and a desirable thing. ____
As we have no move forward at all, we must do it in stages and
remove some arguments off the table which we can mutually agree
to be untenable. So can we now agree that the view (1) above is
simply untrue and naively held by those who forward it. ____
We can now move to (2). First of all, this means that indeed US
law and executive can impinge upon ICANN's policy implementation
whenever it feels it valid to do so in pursuance of legitimate
US public interest. Meaning, If ICANN makes a policy and does
its implementation which is not in-accordance with US law or
legitimate US executive will, they can "interfere" can cause
those actions to be rolled back on the pain of state's coercive
action. This can be for instance regarding how and what
medicines and health related activities are considered ok by the
concerned US regulator. (Similar examples can be thought of in
practically every sector). Are you with me till here, because I
think I am only making logical deduction over what you seem to
agree with?____
If so, this indeed establishes as a fact that US jurisdiction
can, as required, impinge upon (which seen from another vantage
is same as, interfere with) ICANN policies and policy
implementation.____
Which makes the entire exercise of our questionnaire seeking
whether it can so happen rather needless. It of course can. ____
Lets then not argue or fight over that terrain, where we have
this agreement, about how law and executive power operates vis a
vis organisations subject to their jurisdiction. ____
That brings us to another terrain - that, as you argue, and
others have here, that it is right, appropriate and needed that
US law and legitimate executive power impinges upon ICANN
functioning as and when required, becuase it is important to
subject everything to the rule of law (and in your and many
other people's views, ICANN can practically ONLY be subject to
rule of US's law).____
I am happy to discuss this part as long as we do not keep
drifting back to the earlier one whereby there really seems to
be an agreement among most of us that US law and legitimate
executive power can indeed impinge upon or "interfere with"
ICANN's policy or policy implementation work (even if many
consider such interference as being good for ICANN and public
interest) . ____
> of the country of (US) on ICANN is same with that of other
countries (including the ones hosting her regional hubs) because that is
what I think Paul may be implying here.
As a simple example is a Trump travel Ban and the OFAC stuff compared to
if a travel Ban is placed on Turkey where ICANN has a hub. The former
would have global effects on ICANN than the latter. I for one would be
glad if there can be immunity/exemption for ICANN(used in literary
terms) in such scenarios
Regards
Sent from my LG G4
Kindly excuse brevity and typos
On Feb 13, 2017 7:59 PM, "Paul Rosenzweig"
<paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com<mailto:paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com>
<mailto:paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com<mailto:paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com>>> wrote:
Yes, I refute the proposition because it is an alternate fact. Or
put another way – it is wrong.____
__ __
The true fact is simple – by virture of doing business in France,
ICANN is subject to French law. France’s privacy authorities might,
for example, attempt to get ICANN to follow their right to be
forgotten. They would fail, I think, but that proposition is no
different in kind than the idea of US antitrust jurisdiction over
ICANN which will not change one iota if ICANN changes its
jurisdiction of incorporation. As I have said before, the only way
in which place of jurisdiction matters significantly (or to use your
words is of a “different order” is regarding law relating to
corporate incorporation and governance. As to that – e.g. the
implementation of ICANN’s actual corporate governance – it would
change significantly if ICANN moved. But, as others have also
noted, the corporate law of California is vital to ICANN’s current
structure.____
__ __
As for your question about my professional life it is amusing –
because that is indeed what I do for a living and I have, in fact,
given exactly that advice to German businesses with operations in
the United States. I tell them that if they want to avoid American
law (mostly law relating to cybersecurity) the only way to do so is
to avoid having a business presence in the US. If they want to
forgo the market completely they can do so to avoid American law.
But otherwise they cannot. And, I tell them the exact same thing
about French and Indian law as well. In short, I do this for a
living and yes, I say exactly the same thing to paying clients.____
__ __
It is not me who is “falsifying facts” Paraminder. You are making
assertions that have no actual basis in any law that I know of.
Repeatedly asserting them as “facts” does not make them so____
__ __
Paul____
__ __
Paul Rosenzweig____
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*Subject:* Re: [Ws2-jurisdiction] Blog post on ICANN's jurisdiction____
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On Saturday 11 February 2017 10:54 PM, Paul Rosenzweig wrote:____
As we have repeatedly noted, the exact same thing is true of
ICANN’s being subject to the laws of India, France and any other
place it does business. ____
Paul, and you have missed the repeated response that of course this
is not true (and you know it) -- the implication of jurisdiction of
incorporation of a body, and its impact on its working, is of a
completely different order than that of the jurisdictions where it
may merely conduct some business. Do you refute this proposition?
Would you in your professional life advice, say, a business
incorporated in Germany but with worldwide business footprint that
the application of German jurisdiction and laws on it -- and the
real life implications of such application -- is more or less the
same as application of jurisdiction and laws of all counties where
it may conduct any business at all? I look forward to a clear and
unambiguous response to this. Thanks.
If indeed we are to keep falsifying such basic facts, which everyone
knows well, and base our positions on that, there is no way we can
go anywhere with this sub group. We may as well close it up and let
the rapporteur write whatever report he may want to forward. No use
wasting time here in trying to "prove" and reprove and reprove basic
universally known legal and political facts.
____
Your persistence in arguing a strawman Paraminder puts me in
mind of Amartya Sen.____
A perceptive book he wrote, but also speaks of Indian humility and
self-deprecation... Wonder why no one ever wrote "The Hegemonic
American"...
parminder
____
____
Paul Rosenzweig____
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*Subject:* Re: [Ws2-jurisdiction] Blog post on ICANN's
jurisdiction____
____
Nigel,____
Thanks for your views. One gets faced by two kinds of arguments
in favour of keeping the jurisdictional status quo -- which are
mutually exclusive.____
(1) ICANN is somehow not subject to the whole range of US law
and executive powers, as any other US organisations is - or at
least it is somehow felt that US law and executive power will
never apply itself over ICANN functioning. ____
(2) As you argue, ICANN is indeed subject to all US laws and
powers, which might indeed be applied over it as necessary, but
this is a good and a desirable thing. ____
As we have no move forward at all, we must do it in stages and
remove some arguments off the table which we can mutually agree
to be untenable. So can we now agree that the view (1) above is
simply untrue and naively held by those who forward it. ____
We can now move to (2). First of all, this means that indeed US
law and executive can impinge upon ICANN's policy implementation
whenever it feels it valid to do so in pursuance of legitimate
US public interest. Meaning, If ICANN makes a policy and does
its implementation which is not in-accordance with US law or
legitimate US executive will, they can "interfere" can cause
those actions to be rolled back on the pain of state's coercive
action. This can be for instance regarding how and what
medicines and health related activities are considered ok by the
concerned US regulator. (Similar examples can be thought of in
practically every sector). Are you with me till here, because I
think I am only making logical deduction over what you seem to
agree with?____
If so, this indeed establishes as a fact that US jurisdiction
can, as required, impinge upon (which seen from another vantage
is same as, interfere with) ICANN policies and policy
implementation.____
Which makes the entire exercise of our questionnaire seeking
whether it can so happen rather needless. It of course can. ____
Lets then not argue or fight over that terrain, where we have
this agreement, about how law and executive power operates vis a
vis organisations subject to their jurisdiction. ____
That brings us to another terrain - that, as you argue, and
others have here, that it is right, appropriate and needed that
US law and legitimate executive power impinges upon ICANN
functioning as and when required, becuase it is important to
subject everything to the rule of law (and in your and many
other people's views, ICANN can practically ONLY be subject to
rule of US's law).____
I am happy to discuss this part as long as we do not keep
drifting back to the earlier one whereby there really seems to
be an agreement among most of us that US law and legitimate
executive power can indeed impinge upon or "interfere with"
ICANN's policy or policy implementation work (even if many
consider such interference as being good for ICANN and public
interest) . ____
Your only problem with immunity seem to come up with regard to
criminally fraudulent activities. You give the examples of IOC
and FIFA but I have not found they having any special criminal
immunities. I may not have looked up well, but did they? Were
they not finally raided by both Swiss and US authorities. On the
other hand there are many international organisations with legal
immunities that have been gooing great global public interest
work without corruption. Interpol hasnt started to take money to
make international warrants disappear, not, more humbly, the
International Fertilizers Development Centre, immunised under
the relevant US Act, and which enters into contracts worth
millions every years for globally distributed projects, has been
known to do so....
(FIFA and IOC become corrupt because of commercial thinking
completely overpowering public service ethics -- and if ICANN
becomes so it will also be ore likely becuase of this reason.
But et us not get distracted. )
And if indeed we are so concerned about ICANN's abuse of power
and possible frauds and corruption, we should have let a
stronger and more agile community accountability mechanism get
established, like the membership based one, and with lower
thresholds of triggering community action... That is where the
mistake was made, and can still be corrected down the line. Do
not throw the world at the mercy of US law and executive action
for this purpose, especially when it related to to an
infrastructure which today underpins almost every social system.
This is not just some sports. (No hurt intended to sports fans,
I being one.)
parminder
____
On Saturday 11 February 2017 02:16 PM, Nigel Roberts wrote:____
____
and innumerable others. In the circumstances, the real
waiver across all
sectors and laws would be seek immunity under the US
International
Organisations Immunity Act. Would you not prefer this
route? If not, why
so? ____
Because I do not want ICANN to have immunity.
I have been involved in this community since before it was
called 'ICANN', including the gTLD-MoU and the IFWP.
I have seen ICANN behave as an autocrat robber baron and
deprive people of their property.
Fortunately, we have made great strides since then.
Accountability work, between 2003 (in the case of ccTLDs) up
to last years' transition, as well as the fact that, both
staff and Board now have personal trust, that was totally
absent 15 years ago.
But both organisations and personnnel can change.
Institutional immunity leads to corruption. I do not want
ICANN to become a FIFA, or IOC.
And the recent .AFRICA case shows, the checks and balances
of the US judicial system appear to work reasonably well (I
personally remain uneasy about the covenant of immunity but
I expect you have no problem with that).
I trust this explains why some people - and I am one - may
have a diametrically opposed view to yours when it comes to
ICANN immunity.
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Your only problem with immunity seem to come up with regard to
criminally fraudulent activities. You give the examples of IOC
and FIFA but I have not found they having any special criminal
immunities. I may not have looked up well, but did they? Were
they not finally raided by both Swiss and US authorities. On the
other hand there are many international organisations with legal
immunities that have been gooing great global public interest
work without corruption. Interpol hasnt started to take money to
make international warrants disappear, not, more humbly, the
International Fertilizers Development Centre, immunised under
the relevant US Act, and which enters into contracts worth
millions every years for globally distributed projects, has been
known to do so....
(FIFA and IOC become corrupt because of commercial thinking
completely overpowering public service ethics -- and if ICANN
becomes so it will also be ore likely becuase of this reason.
But et us not get distracted. )
And if indeed we are so concerned about ICANN's abuse of power
and possible frauds and corruption, we should have let a
stronger and more agile community accountability mechanism get
established, like the membership based one, and with lower
thresholds of triggering community action... That is where the
mistake was made, and can still be corrected down the line. Do
not throw the world at the mercy of US law and executive action
for this purpose, especially when it related to to an
infrastructure which today underpins almost every social system.
This is not just some sports. (No hurt intended to sports fans,
I being one.)
parminder
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On Saturday 11 February 2017 02:16 PM, Nigel Roberts wrote:____
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and innumerable others. In the circumstances, the real
waiver across all
sectors and laws would be seek immunity under the US
International
Organisations Immunity Act. Would you not prefer this
route? If not, why
so? ____
Because I do not want ICANN to have immunity.
I have been involved in this community since before it was
called 'ICANN', including the gTLD-MoU and the IFWP.
I have seen ICANN behave as an autocrat robber baron and
deprive people of their property.
Fortunately, we have made great strides since then.
Accountability work, between 2003 (in the case of ccTLDs) up
to last years' transition, as well as the fact that, both
staff and Board now have personal trust, that was totally
absent 15 years ago.
But both organisations and personnnel can change.
Institutional immunity leads to corruption. I do not want
ICANN to become a FIFA, or IOC.
And the recent .AFRICA case shows, the checks and balances
of the US judicial system appear to work reasonably well (I
personally remain uneasy about the covenant of immunity but
I expect you have no problem with that).
I trust this explains why some people - and I am one - may
have a diametrically opposed view to yours when it comes to
ICANN immunity.
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