Courts are fairly adept at divining the public interest. ICANN is not a legislature. As we have seen, the hubris that ICANN can simply exist in a vacuum is clearly false. Just because Jones Day, this WG or Uncle Tom Cobley and all define black to be white, means Bill Adams** as far as the judicial system is concerned; and they will continue to draw on several hundred years of experience in this area . . Nigel (** Bill Adams, or 'BA' was a Great War euphemism for "bugger all") On 13/04/16 17:10, Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G. wrote:
Do we already have ICANN official public interest definition? Or are we still in the process of finding it?
Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez +506 8837 7176 Skype: carlos.raulg Current UTC offset: -6.00 (Costa Rica) On 13 Apr 2016, at 10:03, Nigel Roberts wrote:
The 'public interest' is exactly what it says.. The global public.
He refers SPECIFICALLY to the African internet users' public interest in the judgment.
As follows:
On balance, the Court finds it more prejudicial to the African community, and the international community in general, if the delegation of .Africa is made prior to a determination on the fairness of the process by which it was delegated.
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