On Thursday 24 March 2016 09:34 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
International incorporation either
follows a new treaty, or can be under
the UN....
This is where i will rest my case on this
topic; ...
Indeed. If we want the ITU, we know where to find it.
John, One can keep aiming at a strawman, when the real issue is
something entirely different, but that is just not very useful other
than to obfuscate the issue.
It should be very clear that I am not talking about actual
techno-management of the Internet (in which ICANN and ITU may have
or have had some rivalry). My
article is clear that I am for letting ICANN do all that it
does at present. The focus is only on the oversight layer, which is
currently exercised by the US, and I argue that this situation is
only partly and not entirely remedied, becuase anything that anyone
could have feared as a possible wrongful outcome of US's unilateral
oversight can still be done through an extensive set of
existing jurisdictional - executive, legislative and judicial -
powers that the US will continue to posses even after the current
oversight process.... If you disagree that these powers of the US
state will continue to exist please let me know. To get away from
this wrongful subjugation to one country or state's powers, ICANN
must get incorporated under international law, which will ensure
host country jurisdictional immunities... I simply cant understand
where does the ITU come in here !? There are so many organisations
under international incorporation that remain very independent in
their working, plus we have all the leverage to be as innovative
here as we can. But for that we should first begin examining this
issue in the right earnest, and inter alia go beyond strawman
arguments. There is no ITU issue here at all.
As a US citizen I can perhaps understand your lack of interest in
ICANN's international incorporation, but when those of other
countries, especially those who have suffered under the colonial
yoke, too remain unconcerned with this problem, that really bothers,
and pains, me..
parminder
R's,
John