Roberto, At the end of July, your fellow Board member Vanda Scartezini posted the following comment on the ALAC Working Wiki: "I am not seeing topics related to IGF as part of ALAC work, though I probably am not looking at the right place. Considering IGF has already an agenda and this agenda has a lot of issues: Critical Resources; Access; diversity; openness; development/capacity building; security and the way they may be presented as far as I know, may be not aligned with general ICANN's interest, I would like to see more clearly how ALAC is dealing with those themes, which are the role/ participation of ALAC at IGF, how the community can contribute with ALAC re these topics." -- https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?alac_top_10_issues What you have posed is a jurisdictional question pertaining to the management of Critical Resources that could readily constitute a workshop topic at the upcoming IGF. Do you still believe that for ICANN to expend money and staff to participate in the IGF efforts is ultra vires (as you earlier stated on the GA list when you signalled your agreement with Karl's position), or has your position shifted to the degree that you might now tend to side with Vanda on this matter? I ask this question because the juridictional conundrum is at the heart of the WHOIS debate and the ICANN community could surely benefit from the type of wide-reaching discussion on the matter that the IGF could supply. In your view, will ICANN take the initiative and raise this topic at the IGF? regards, Danny --- Roberto Gaetano <roberto@icann.org> wrote:
Michele,
Thanks for the explanation, but it is not an answer to my question. I am not arguing at all about who is right and who is wrong, and/or who consider what is his/her right. I am only asking what is the difference, legally, in allowing a different regime to a ccTLD, and allowing a different regime to a registrar located in the country of the same ccTLD. The question is: "What is the legal jurisdiction in either case, and if it is different, why?".
Cheers, Roberto
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