[Ws2-jurisdiction] Blog post on ICANN's jurisdiction

Nigel Roberts nigel at channelisles.net
Thu Feb 23 17:31:26 UTC 2017


I'm extremely reluctant to simply say "I agree".

But "I agree . . ."



On 23/02/17 17:26, Burr, Becky wrote:
> I am extremely reluctant to wade in here, and do so explicitly in my
> personal capacity as an active participant in the CCWG-Accountability
> work, including as the rapporteur for the Mission, Commitment, and Core
> Values provisions of the Bylaws.  These views are mine alone, and may or
> may not be shared by other members of the ICANN Board.
>
> I respect Parminder’s conviction that ICANN should have immunity as an
> international organization. But the record of the CCWG-Accountability
> work reflects the fact that the concept of constituting ICANN as an
> international organization with privileges and immunities model was
> discussed but rejected in favor of a model that created specific,
> externally enforceable community powers of the sort created by the
> California non-profit corporation statute.  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.
>
> 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: 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.  ICANN is not a treaty-based organization, nor
> is it conducting work normally carried out by an intergovernmental
> organization.  Turning it into a treaty-based organization would seem to
> me to violate the Bylaws-mandated Core Value that requires ICANN to
> */remain rooted in the private sector/*. 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.
>
> *From:*ws2-jurisdiction-bounces at icann.org
> [mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces at icann.org] *On Behalf Of *Seun Ojedeji
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 14, 2017 1:43 PM
> *To:* Greg Shatan <gregshatanipc at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* ws2-jurisdiction <ws2-jurisdiction at icann.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Ws2-jurisdiction] Blog post on ICANN's jurisdiction
>
> Sent from my LG G4
> Kindly excuse brevity and typos
>
> On Feb 14, 2017 12:29 PM, "Greg Shatan" <gregshatanipc at gmail.com
> <mailto:gregshatanipc at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Seun,
>
>     You say that a "Trump travel Ban . . . 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."
>
>     Can you clarify how a travel ban into the US from a list of
>     countries would "have global effects on ICANN" 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's
>     operations in the US than those in Turkey?
>
> SO: It's not really because more people "want" to, it'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.
>
>     Why is it a global effect on ICANN if it only concerns a small
>     number of countries?
>
> 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'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'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.
>
> 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's not always about the few ban countries, it's about the global reaction.
>
> 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
>
> Regards
>
> 1. Ofcourse I recognise there is not light at the end of the tunnel.
>
>     [Please 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.]
>
>     Thanks!
>
>     Greg
>
>
>     *Greg Shatan
>     *C: 917-816-6428
>     S: gsshatan
>     Phone-to-Skype: 646-845-9428
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>
>     On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 6:17 AM, Seun Ojedeji
>     <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com <mailto:seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         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____
>
>                      __ __
>
>                      Paul Rosenzweig____
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>                      *From:*parminder [mailto:parminder at itforchange.net
>                 <mailto:parminder at itforchange.net>
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>                      *Sent:* Sunday, February 12, 2017 12:54 AM
>                      *To:* Paul Rosenzweig
>                 <paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com
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>                 <mailto:ws2-jurisdiction at icann.org>
>                 <mailto:ws2-jurisdiction at icann.org
>                 <mailto:ws2-jurisdiction at icann.org>>
>                      *Subject:* Re: [Ws2-jurisdiction] Blog post on
>                 ICANN's jurisdiction____
>
>                      __ __
>
>                      __ __
>
>                      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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>                          *From:*ws2-jurisdiction-bounces at icann.org
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>                          <mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces at icann.org
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>                 <mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces at icann.org>>] *On Behalf Of
>                          *parminder
>                          *Sent:* Saturday, February 11, 2017 8:46 AM
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>                 <mailto:ws2-jurisdiction at icann.org>>
>                          *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____
>
>                      __ __
>
>                      __ __
>
>                      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
>
>
>
>
>                          ____
>
>                          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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