The latter. ICANN can barely cope with what it has on its plate today. If there is a vacuum in International law, that gets handled by treaty, not by a US nonprofit with no external accountability, that scrupulously shuns all reference to it as a regulator. On Sep 2, 2014 7:37 PM, "Thomas Lowenhaupt" <toml@communisphere.com> wrote:

Evan,

Which is the fantasy - the vacuum or ICANN as the fill?

Tom

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [At-Large] News on the .health TLD allocation From: Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> Date: Tue, September 02, 2014 4:58 pm To: Antony Van Couvering <avc@avc.vc> Cc: ICANN At-Large list <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org>

On 2 September 2014 16:52, Antony Van Couvering <avc@avc.vc> wrote:

...

The author also says, and it's relevant here:

"But there is a vacuum in international law, and ICANN is in a position to fill that vacuum, ​"

​That is fantasy, and fantasy is not relevant here.

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