It really isn't a personal opinion; the facts are undeniable by virtue of the admitted regulatory signs. It is in ICANN's power to gift a resource, set the requirements by which one can be gifted, set the rules for use of resource, charge and punish violations of the rules as appropriate and exact a fee for gifting that resource. Anywhere else in Christendom and the known sensate world, those activities are the very definition of a regulator. ICANN has managed to convince itself and would wish to make accommodating idiots of the rest of us because it is politically difficult to do otherwise. I get the politics of it. But to ask me to deny the evidence of my two lying eyes and what is plainly the case in reason and judgment is a bridge too far. The Christian bible has a line in it "in Christ all things are possible". I would add a caution to that declaration: Save and except to take me for an idiot. -Carlton ============================== *Carlton A Samuels* *Mobile: 876-818-1799Strategy, Process, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* ============================= On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 4:13 PM Kan Kaili <kankaili@gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed Goran has said "ICANN is not a regulator" many times. I have heard him saying that myself. However, this is something I disagree with him.
Again, in my personal opinion, as long as the positioning of ICANN stays blurry as it is now, the confusion will only accumulate until it creats a crisis.
Kaili
----- Original Message ----- From: "Johan Helsingius" <julf@julf.com> To: <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 8:33 PM Subject: Re: [At-Large] [lac-discuss-en] Vistaprint is abandoning .vista
On 12-07-18 19:56, Kan Kaili wrote:
In my opinion, ICANN should play the role of a regulator.
Our esteemed CEO, Göran Marby, has a number of phrases he repeats fairly often. "ICANN is not a regulator" is one of them.
Julf
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