Sent from my LG G4 Kindly excuse brevity and typos On 26 Apr 2016 19:36, "Pranesh Prakash" <pranesh@cis-india.org> wrote:

My simple point, which you have not refuted, is that a treaty can be a

basis for or can recognize a multistakeholder organization (e.g., the ILO).

SO: Theoretically yes and my response to your point is that the life span/overall decision on such MS would be based on the treaty which is formed by govt. I hope you agree that the decision to renew IGF was not decided by the MS (in practice) but by the UN. Can you then imagine we put ICANN in such a suspense; that has been "somewhat" happening so far (with NTIA contract), the transition fixes that. Let's not go back to our vomit!

At any rate, there have been calls for a long while for changing the current legal structure of ICANN. Of course, people on this list are liable to view these as not "important":

SO: I understand and it may surprise you that I wish it was possible as well and I am open to hearing ways that it can be done without costing me/us something else that I/we place higher on my/our priority list. Regards

Here are some demands from the civil society caucus (IGC) at WSIS in 2005:

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“ICANN will negotiate an appropriate host country agreement to replace its California Incorporation, being careful to retain those aspects of its California Incorporation that enhance its accountability to the global Internet user community. "ICANN's decisions, and any host country agreement, must be required to comply with public policy requirements negotiated through international treaties in regard to, inter alia, human rights treaties, privacy rights, gender agreements and trade rules. … "It is also expected that the multi-stakeholder community will observe and comment on the progress made in this process through the proposed [Internet Governance] Forum."

https://www.itu.int/net/wsis/docs2/pc3/contributions/sca/hbf-29.doc

Regards, Pranesh

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