In his testimony, Fadi said “ICANN has its global headquarters in the United States, and there are no plans for that to change.” When I met Fadi two days back in New Delhi, he restated that now is not the time for ICANN to move out of US; instead let's us all focus on stewardship transition. That means ICANN will continue to remain subject to US laws and jurisdiction, and ICANN even isn’t even considering propositions made by several to move ICANN out of US. Also as far as I am aware, the working group on ICANN Accountability (CCWG), is also not debating on this particular aspect.

 

My question is a) What are the Interest of ICANN in continuing to remain subject to US jurisdiction and US laws? And b) If ICANN is to truly emerge as a global institution, and to change the perception of other nation states and stakeholder over USG special relation with ICANN, don’t you think ICANN should move out of US, and ICANN & its functions should be subject to global laws, not state of California laws?

Look forward to views of members. It is really an important issue that should be discussed.

Best Regards,

Rahul Sharma 

On 6 March 2015 at 02:57, Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au> wrote:

Thanks for the link David.   I have attached the PDF of the testimony for convenience.

 

Regards,

Bruce Tonkin

 

 

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Hi Kavouss,

 

At this website is an archived video of the Senate hearing, and you scroll down (all the way under “Witness panel 1”) and click on each witness you can get access to their prepared remarks:

 

http://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Hearings&ContentRecord_id=683924ae-83d7-4bf4-922a-cdecb9556ba9&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=b06c39af-e033-4cba-9221-de668ca1978a

 

Best regards

 

David

 

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