This is getting very angels on a pin, and I'm happy to take it offlist if it starts to irritate everyone else. It's most interesting though. All I meant is to say this. International law applies to and between countries, and has (in dualist countries) no legal effect inside the domestic law of that country. You can't prosecute someone in who, as a state actor, unlawfully deprives someone of their life (apparently quite common in the US) by relying on Article 3 of the Universal Declaration -- you have to go to state law on murder and manslaughter (or in the UK, the 17th century Lord Coke). You can't rely the Universal Declaration as black letter law, only as an aid to construction. (Pre-1998, the ECHR was similarly non-justiciable in the UK.) On another topic: "Wooly" is an idiom we use to mean "fuzzy". And by using I meant that ICANN (as can be seen from their pleadings in both .XXX and .AFRICA) don't quite "get it" and I think sometimes they may believe that their job is to be a good referee, not on the pitch kicking the ball about. There are high-level principles in Art. 4 of ICANN's M&A, but a distinct lack of accountability measures, would'nt you agree?
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