Every ICANN president has vigorously asserted that ICANN is not a regulator. This is not merely a casual opinion, it is a demand imposed upon them by ICANN's lawyers. To admit that ICANN is a regulator - - or even provides some regulatory function - - is to invite even deeper state scrutiny and attempts to make ICANN into a multilateral, treaty-based body than now exists. In a submission to ICANN's Accountability and Transparency review team more than a decade ago, a number of At-Large members submitted an analysis that called on ICANN to recognize the obvious and embrace its inner regulator: https://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-atrt2-02apr13/pdfNKvEtbrZ3u.pdf Not much has changed. While a few references are dated, the paper's observations and commentaries are as valid now as then. ___________________ Evan Leibovitch, Toronto @evanleibovitch/@el56 On Jul 13, 2018 5:13 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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