Parminder - I used "private sector" in the manner it is used in the ICANN Bylaws, meaning business stakeholders, academics, civil society, technical community and end-users. See Article 1, Section 1.2(a)(iv). My larger point remains - this question (re privileges and immunities) was asked and answered in WS1. From: ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Mueller, Milton L Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2017 10:06 AM To: parminder <parminder@itforchange.net>; ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org Subject: Re: [Ws2-jurisdiction] Blog post on ICANN's jurisdiction
Yes, it needs action by both the Congress and the President of the US. The former will need to just amend some existing laws related to some international orgs and add ICANN somewhere in it. Simple work. And the President has to issue a decree under the Immunities Act.
So in the name of making ICANN more independent of the US government, you want to subject it to what would undoubtedly be a politically contentious and years-long process of legislation by the U.S. Congress (Republican-dominated) and would require the agreement a President whose platform vowed to never let ICANN be free of the U.S. government. Really smart. Does the word "backfire" have any meaning to non-Americans? If not, check out definition #2 here: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=backfire+definition&*<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.google.com_webhp-3Fsourceid-3Dchrome-2Dinstant-26ion-3D1-26espv-3D2-26ie-3DUTF-2D8-23q-3Dbackfire-2Bdefinition-26-2A&d=DwMFAg&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=lFzxyNZsqPq3dQCf2tQLLZwXRtWJNr01a16Lb6Zo_d8&s=2vjNdjcujIA_f13AAKVmN8mF_RYRvQZJ-bBgxoQ4Dd8&e=> Dr. Milton L. Mueller Professor, School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology ICANN is not a treaty-based organization, This is not required. nor is it conducting work normally carried out by an intergovernmental organization. As shown by Jorge, this is not true. Turning it into a treaty-based organization No need to turn it into treaty based org to get US immunity. would seem to me to violate the Bylaws-mandated Core Value that requires ICANN to remain rooted in the private sector. There is a linguistic problem here. Private sector is understood differently in the US than almost everywhere else. In the US, it is just to be outside government, which ICANN is. Outside the US, it mostly mean for profit sector. ICANN is indeed outside government(s), and there is no proposal to change that. But it is also equally a non profit . That also I hope is not intended to be changed. In any case, whether non profit or for profit, everything is always subject to some kind of governmental jurisdiction. Being so subject does not change its non profit or even for profit nature. So the point is really moot. This language was contested on numerous occasions by members of the GAC, and the community repeatedly insisted on retaining this orientation. I think that there can be little argument that the community affirmatively committed to maintaining this status through the Accountability work. The community asked this group to consider the issue of US jurisdiction over ICANN. And a question can only be considered if it is open - -unless, sorry to use that word, we are all mutually and together fooling ourselves, and doing discussions that really have no meaning or purpose. I really hope this is not the case - -although, I must admit, despair often does arises that it may actually may be the case. parminder From: ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org<mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org> [mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Seun Ojedeji Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 1:43 PM To: Greg Shatan <gregshatanipc@gmail.com><mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com> Cc: ws2-jurisdiction <ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org><mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org> Subject: Re: [Ws2-jurisdiction] Blog post on ICANN's jurisdiction Sent from my LG G4 Kindly excuse brevity and typos On Feb 14, 2017 12:29 PM, "Greg Shatan" <gregshatanipc@gmail.com<mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com>> wrote: Seun, You say that a "Trump travel Ban . . . compared to if a travel Ban is placed on Turkey where ICANN has a hub. The former would have global effects on ICANN than the latter." Can you clarify how a travel ban into the US from a list of countries would "have global effects on ICANN" and a travel ban into Turkey from a list of countries not have a similar type of effect? Is this just because more people will want to travel to ICANN's operations in the US than those in Turkey? SO: It's not really because more people "want" to, it's because for ICANN it may be prudent at times to have the meeting in the US. When I say meeting, I am not just referring to the 3 global meetings alone. Why is it a global effect on ICANN if it only concerns a small number of countries? SO: Sometime ago I was reading an article mentioning whether I* organisations should cancel subsequent meetings in the US (even though I personally do not think it's worth it to cancel already planned Puerto Rico meeting) but imagine the global effects if such happen. Beyond that such action by US govt also cause unintended(or perhaps unnecessary) consequences/reactions. Like it won't be out of scope for an African govt who is already pissed off with .Africa[1] and second level 2 character to also indicate the ban as an exhibit to drive a point. Just checkout how many ICANN related articles that connects to the ban has been published lately so you think similar level of response would have happened globally if the travel ban happened in Turkey? I doubt. So it's not always about the few ban countries, it's about the global reaction. For clarity if ICANN were incorporated in Turkey and same banned happen, the global effect would have still be similar to that of the US at present. So the point is not that it may not have happened if ICANN was incorporated in Turkey (or Switzerland as Paul puts it) but the point is that it is unfair to say the effects to ICANN ORG/community in both scenarios is the same Regards 1. Ofcourse I recognise there is not light at the end of the tunnel. [Please note that I personally do not support the travel ban, nor do I minimize the effects it has had and continues to have on citizens of those countries.] Thanks! Greg Greg Shatan C: 917-816-6428 S: gsshatan Phone-to-Skype: 646-845-9428 gregshatanipc@gmail.com<mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 6:17 AM, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji@gmail.com<mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com>> wrote: Thanks Nigel, I am not asking about an overall immunity for ICANN but I am talking about specific scenario like the ones I have indicated. Maybe the right word isn't immunity. Cheers! Sent from my LG G4 Kindly excuse brevity and typos On Feb 14, 2017 11:45 AM, "Nigel Roberts" <nigel@channelisles.net<mailto:nigel@channelisles.net>> wrote: I think you miss the point about immunity. It's means "ICANN can do what it likes and can't be sued". On 14/02/17 09:23, Seun Ojedeji wrote: Hi, I am not a lawyer but it doesn't sound accurate to say that the effect of the country of (US) on ICANN is same with that of other countries (including the ones hosting her regional hubs) because that is what I think Paul may be implying here. As a simple example is a Trump travel Ban and the OFAC stuff compared to if a travel Ban is placed on Turkey where ICANN has a hub. The former would have global effects on ICANN than the latter. I for one would be glad if there can be immunity/exemption for ICANN(used in literary terms) in such scenarios Regards Sent from my LG G4 Kindly excuse brevity and typos On Feb 13, 2017 7:59 PM, "Paul Rosenzweig" <paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com<mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com> <mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com<mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com>>> wrote: Yes, I refute the proposition because it is an alternate fact. Or put another way - it is wrong.____ __ __ The true fact is simple - by virture of doing business in France, ICANN is subject to French law. France's privacy authorities might, for example, attempt to get ICANN to follow their right to be forgotten. They would fail, I think, but that proposition is no different in kind than the idea of US antitrust jurisdiction over ICANN which will not change one iota if ICANN changes its jurisdiction of incorporation. As I have said before, the only way in which place of jurisdiction matters significantly (or to use your words is of a "different order" is regarding law relating to corporate incorporation and governance. As to that - e.g. the implementation of ICANN's actual corporate governance - it would change significantly if ICANN moved. But, as others have also noted, the corporate law of California is vital to ICANN's current structure.____ __ __ As for your question about my professional life it is amusing - because that is indeed what I do for a living and I have, in fact, given exactly that advice to German businesses with operations in the United States. I tell them that if they want to avoid American law (mostly law relating to cybersecurity) the only way to do so is to avoid having a business presence in the US. If they want to forgo the market completely they can do so to avoid American law. But otherwise they cannot. And, I tell them the exact same thing about French and Indian law as well. In short, I do this for a living and yes, I say exactly the same thing to paying clients.____ __ __ It is not me who is "falsifying facts" Paraminder. You are making assertions that have no actual basis in any law that I know of. 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Do you refute this proposition? Would you in your professional life advice, say, a business incorporated in Germany but with worldwide business footprint that the application of German jurisdiction and laws on it -- and the real life implications of such application -- is more or less the same as application of jurisdiction and laws of all counties where it may conduct any business at all? I look forward to a clear and unambiguous response to this. Thanks. If indeed we are to keep falsifying such basic facts, which everyone knows well, and base our positions on that, there is no way we can go anywhere with this sub group. We may as well close it up and let the rapporteur write whatever report he may want to forward. No use wasting time here in trying to "prove" and reprove and reprove basic universally known legal and political facts. ____ Your persistence in arguing a strawman Paraminder puts me in mind of Amartya Sen.____ A perceptive book he wrote, but also speaks of Indian humility and self-deprecation... Wonder why no one ever wrote "The Hegemonic American"... parminder ____ ____ Paul Rosenzweig____ paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com<mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com> <mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com<mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com>>____ O: +1 (202) 547-0660<tel:%2B1%20%28202%29%20547-0660> <tel:+1%20202-547-0660>____ M: +1 (202) 329-9650<tel:%2B1%20%28202%29%20329-9650> <tel:+1%20202-329-9650>____ VOIP: +1 (202) 738-1739<tel:%2B1%20%28202%29%20738-1739> <tel:+1%20202-738-1739>____ www.redbranchconsulting.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.redbranchconsulting....> <http://www.redbranchconsulting.com/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.redbranchconsulting.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=1k6KNFdJzQIC6CkW4-cXYamlUd3hWDS-W8MchdaYxlg&e=>>____ My PGP Key: https://keys.mailvelope.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9A830097CA066684<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__keys.mailvelope.com_pks_lookup-3Fop-3Dget-26search-3D0x9A830097CA066684&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=gBJP9BR7SmJmiYPTtMNTO5cs0-iDPOyGn0HBd1gGbLk&e=> <https://keys.mailvelope.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9A830097CA066684<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__keys.mailvelope.com_pks_lookup-3Fop-3Dget-26search-3D0x9A830097CA066684&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=gBJP9BR7SmJmiYPTtMNTO5cs0-iDPOyGn0HBd1gGbLk&e=>>____ ____ *From:*ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org<mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org> <mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org<mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org>> [mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org<mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org> <mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org<mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org>>] *On Behalf Of *parminder *Sent:* Saturday, February 11, 2017 8:46 AM *To:* ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org> <mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org>> *Subject:* Re: [Ws2-jurisdiction] Blog post on ICANN's jurisdiction____ ____ Nigel,____ Thanks for your views. One gets faced by two kinds of arguments in favour of keeping the jurisdictional status quo -- which are mutually exclusive.____ (1) ICANN is somehow not subject to the whole range of US law and executive powers, as any other US organisations is - or at least it is somehow felt that US law and executive power will never apply itself over ICANN functioning. ____ (2) As you argue, ICANN is indeed subject to all US laws and powers, which might indeed be applied over it as necessary, but this is a good and a desirable thing. ____ As we have no move forward at all, we must do it in stages and remove some arguments off the table which we can mutually agree to be untenable. So can we now agree that the view (1) above is simply untrue and naively held by those who forward it. ____ We can now move to (2). First of all, this means that indeed US law and executive can impinge upon ICANN's policy implementation whenever it feels it valid to do so in pursuance of legitimate US public interest. Meaning, If ICANN makes a policy and does its implementation which is not in-accordance with US law or legitimate US executive will, they can "interfere" can cause those actions to be rolled back on the pain of state's coercive action. This can be for instance regarding how and what medicines and health related activities are considered ok by the concerned US regulator. (Similar examples can be thought of in practically every sector). Are you with me till here, because I think I am only making logical deduction over what you seem to agree with?____ If so, this indeed establishes as a fact that US jurisdiction can, as required, impinge upon (which seen from another vantage is same as, interfere with) ICANN policies and policy implementation.____ Which makes the entire exercise of our questionnaire seeking whether it can so happen rather needless. It of course can. ____ Lets then not argue or fight over that terrain, where we have this agreement, about how law and executive power operates vis a vis organisations subject to their jurisdiction. ____ That brings us to another terrain - that, as you argue, and others have here, that it is right, appropriate and needed that US law and legitimate executive power impinges upon ICANN functioning as and when required, becuase it is important to subject everything to the rule of law (and in your and many other people's views, ICANN can practically ONLY be subject to rule of US's law).____ I am happy to discuss this part as long as we do not keep drifting back to the earlier one whereby there really seems to be an agreement among most of us that US law and legitimate executive power can indeed impinge upon or "interfere with" ICANN's policy or policy implementation work (even if many consider such interference as being good for ICANN and public interest) . ____
of the country of (US) on ICANN is same with that of other countries (including the ones hosting her regional hubs) because that is what I think Paul may be implying here.
As a simple example is a Trump travel Ban and the OFAC stuff compared to if a travel Ban is placed on Turkey where ICANN has a hub. The former would have global effects on ICANN than the latter. I for one would be glad if there can be immunity/exemption for ICANN(used in literary terms) in such scenarios Regards Sent from my LG G4 Kindly excuse brevity and typos On Feb 13, 2017 7:59 PM, "Paul Rosenzweig" <paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com<mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com> <mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com<mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com>>> wrote: Yes, I refute the proposition because it is an alternate fact. Or put another way - it is wrong.____ __ __ The true fact is simple - by virture of doing business in France, ICANN is subject to French law. France's privacy authorities might, for example, attempt to get ICANN to follow their right to be forgotten. They would fail, I think, but that proposition is no different in kind than the idea of US antitrust jurisdiction over ICANN which will not change one iota if ICANN changes its jurisdiction of incorporation. As I have said before, the only way in which place of jurisdiction matters significantly (or to use your words is of a "different order" is regarding law relating to corporate incorporation and governance. As to that - e.g. the implementation of ICANN's actual corporate governance - it would change significantly if ICANN moved. But, as others have also noted, the corporate law of California is vital to ICANN's current structure.____ __ __ As for your question about my professional life it is amusing - because that is indeed what I do for a living and I have, in fact, given exactly that advice to German businesses with operations in the United States. I tell them that if they want to avoid American law (mostly law relating to cybersecurity) the only way to do so is to avoid having a business presence in the US. If they want to forgo the market completely they can do so to avoid American law. But otherwise they cannot. And, I tell them the exact same thing about French and Indian law as well. In short, I do this for a living and yes, I say exactly the same thing to paying clients.____ __ __ It is not me who is "falsifying facts" Paraminder. You are making assertions that have no actual basis in any law that I know of. Repeatedly asserting them as "facts" does not make them so____ __ __ Paul____ __ __ Paul Rosenzweig____ paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com<mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com> <mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com<mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com>>____ O: +1 (202) 547-0660<tel:%2B1%20%28202%29%20547-0660> <tel:+1%20202-547-0660>____ M: +1 (202) 329-9650<tel:%2B1%20%28202%29%20329-9650> <tel:+1%20202-329-9650>____ VOIP: +1 (202) 738-1739<tel:%2B1%20%28202%29%20738-1739> <tel:+1%20202-738-1739>____ www.redbranchconsulting.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.redbranchconsulting....> <http://www.redbranchconsulting.com/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.redbranchconsulting.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=1k6KNFdJzQIC6CkW4-cXYamlUd3hWDS-W8MchdaYxlg&e=>>____ My PGP Key: https://keys.mailvelope.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9A830097CA066684<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__keys.mailvelope.com_pks_lookup-3Fop-3Dget-26search-3D0x9A830097CA066684&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=gBJP9BR7SmJmiYPTtMNTO5cs0-iDPOyGn0HBd1gGbLk&e=> <https://keys.mailvelope.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9A830097CA066684<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__keys.mailvelope.com_pks_lookup-3Fop-3Dget-26search-3D0x9A830097CA066684&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=gBJP9BR7SmJmiYPTtMNTO5cs0-iDPOyGn0HBd1gGbLk&e=>>____ __ __ *From:*parminder [mailto:parminder@itforchange.net<mailto:parminder@itforchange.net> <mailto:parminder@itforchange.net<mailto:parminder@itforchange.net>>] *Sent:* Sunday, February 12, 2017 12:54 AM *To:* Paul Rosenzweig <paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com<mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com> <mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com<mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com>>>; ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org> <mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org>> *Subject:* Re: [Ws2-jurisdiction] Blog post on ICANN's jurisdiction____ __ __ __ __ On Saturday 11 February 2017 10:54 PM, Paul Rosenzweig wrote:____ As we have repeatedly noted, the exact same thing is true of ICANN's being subject to the laws of India, France and any other place it does business. ____ Paul, and you have missed the repeated response that of course this is not true (and you know it) -- the implication of jurisdiction of incorporation of a body, and its impact on its working, is of a completely different order than that of the jurisdictions where it may merely conduct some business. Do you refute this proposition? Would you in your professional life advice, say, a business incorporated in Germany but with worldwide business footprint that the application of German jurisdiction and laws on it -- and the real life implications of such application -- is more or less the same as application of jurisdiction and laws of all counties where it may conduct any business at all? I look forward to a clear and unambiguous response to this. Thanks. If indeed we are to keep falsifying such basic facts, which everyone knows well, and base our positions on that, there is no way we can go anywhere with this sub group. We may as well close it up and let the rapporteur write whatever report he may want to forward. No use wasting time here in trying to "prove" and reprove and reprove basic universally known legal and political facts. ____ Your persistence in arguing a strawman Paraminder puts me in mind of Amartya Sen.____ A perceptive book he wrote, but also speaks of Indian humility and self-deprecation... Wonder why no one ever wrote "The Hegemonic American"... parminder ____ ____ Paul Rosenzweig____ paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com<mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com> <mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com<mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com>>____ O: +1 (202) 547-0660<tel:%2B1%20%28202%29%20547-0660> <tel:+1%20202-547-0660>____ M: +1 (202) 329-9650<tel:%2B1%20%28202%29%20329-9650> <tel:+1%20202-329-9650>____ VOIP: +1 (202) 738-1739<tel:%2B1%20%28202%29%20738-1739> <tel:+1%20202-738-1739>____ www.redbranchconsulting.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.redbranchconsulting....> <http://www.redbranchconsulting.com/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.redbranchconsulting.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=1k6KNFdJzQIC6CkW4-cXYamlUd3hWDS-W8MchdaYxlg&e=>>____ My PGP Key: https://keys.mailvelope.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9A830097CA066684<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__keys.mailvelope.com_pks_lookup-3Fop-3Dget-26search-3D0x9A830097CA066684&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=gBJP9BR7SmJmiYPTtMNTO5cs0-iDPOyGn0HBd1gGbLk&e=> <https://keys.mailvelope.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9A830097CA066684<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__keys.mailvelope.com_pks_lookup-3Fop-3Dget-26search-3D0x9A830097CA066684&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=gBJP9BR7SmJmiYPTtMNTO5cs0-iDPOyGn0HBd1gGbLk&e=>>____ ____ *From:*ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org<mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org> <mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org<mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org>> [mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org<mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org> <mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org<mailto:ws2-jurisdiction-bounces@icann.org>>] *On Behalf Of *parminder *Sent:* Saturday, February 11, 2017 8:46 AM *To:* ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org> <mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org>> *Subject:* Re: [Ws2-jurisdiction] Blog post on ICANN's jurisdiction____ ____ Nigel,____ Thanks for your views. One gets faced by two kinds of arguments in favour of keeping the jurisdictional status quo -- which are mutually exclusive.____ (1) ICANN is somehow not subject to the whole range of US law and executive powers, as any other US organisations is - or at least it is somehow felt that US law and executive power will never apply itself over ICANN functioning. ____ (2) As you argue, ICANN is indeed subject to all US laws and powers, which might indeed be applied over it as necessary, but this is a good and a desirable thing. ____ As we have no move forward at all, we must do it in stages and remove some arguments off the table which we can mutually agree to be untenable. So can we now agree that the view (1) above is simply untrue and naively held by those who forward it. ____ We can now move to (2). First of all, this means that indeed US law and executive can impinge upon ICANN's policy implementation whenever it feels it valid to do so in pursuance of legitimate US public interest. Meaning, If ICANN makes a policy and does its implementation which is not in-accordance with US law or legitimate US executive will, they can "interfere" can cause those actions to be rolled back on the pain of state's coercive action. This can be for instance regarding how and what medicines and health related activities are considered ok by the concerned US regulator. (Similar examples can be thought of in practically every sector). Are you with me till here, because I think I am only making logical deduction over what you seem to agree with?____ If so, this indeed establishes as a fact that US jurisdiction can, as required, impinge upon (which seen from another vantage is same as, interfere with) ICANN policies and policy implementation.____ Which makes the entire exercise of our questionnaire seeking whether it can so happen rather needless. It of course can. ____ Lets then not argue or fight over that terrain, where we have this agreement, about how law and executive power operates vis a vis organisations subject to their jurisdiction. ____ That brings us to another terrain - that, as you argue, and others have here, that it is right, appropriate and needed that US law and legitimate executive power impinges upon ICANN functioning as and when required, becuase it is important to subject everything to the rule of law (and in your and many other people's views, ICANN can practically ONLY be subject to rule of US's law).____ I am happy to discuss this part as long as we do not keep drifting back to the earlier one whereby there really seems to be an agreement among most of us that US law and legitimate executive power can indeed impinge upon or "interfere with" ICANN's policy or policy implementation work (even if many consider such interference as being good for ICANN and public interest) . ____ Your only problem with immunity seem to come up with regard to criminally fraudulent activities. You give the examples of IOC and FIFA but I have not found they having any special criminal immunities. I may not have looked up well, but did they? Were they not finally raided by both Swiss and US authorities. On the other hand there are many international organisations with legal immunities that have been gooing great global public interest work without corruption. Interpol hasnt started to take money to make international warrants disappear, not, more humbly, the International Fertilizers Development Centre, immunised under the relevant US Act, and which enters into contracts worth millions every years for globally distributed projects, has been known to do so.... (FIFA and IOC become corrupt because of commercial thinking completely overpowering public service ethics -- and if ICANN becomes so it will also be ore likely becuase of this reason. But et us not get distracted. ) And if indeed we are so concerned about ICANN's abuse of power and possible frauds and corruption, we should have let a stronger and more agile community accountability mechanism get established, like the membership based one, and with lower thresholds of triggering community action... That is where the mistake was made, and can still be corrected down the line. Do not throw the world at the mercy of US law and executive action for this purpose, especially when it related to to an infrastructure which today underpins almost every social system. This is not just some sports. (No hurt intended to sports fans, I being one.) parminder ____ On Saturday 11 February 2017 02:16 PM, Nigel Roberts wrote:____ ____ and innumerable others. In the circumstances, the real waiver across all sectors and laws would be seek immunity under the US International Organisations Immunity Act. Would you not prefer this route? If not, why so? ____ Because I do not want ICANN to have immunity. I have been involved in this community since before it was called 'ICANN', including the gTLD-MoU and the IFWP. I have seen ICANN behave as an autocrat robber baron and deprive people of their property. Fortunately, we have made great strides since then. Accountability work, between 2003 (in the case of ccTLDs) up to last years' transition, as well as the fact that, both staff and Board now have personal trust, that was totally absent 15 years ago. But both organisations and personnnel can change. Institutional immunity leads to corruption. I do not want ICANN to become a FIFA, or IOC. And the recent .AFRICA case shows, the checks and balances of the US judicial system appear to work reasonably well (I personally remain uneasy about the covenant of immunity but I expect you have no problem with that). I trust this explains why some people - and I am one - may have a diametrically opposed view to yours when it comes to ICANN immunity. _______________________________________________ Ws2-jurisdiction mailing list Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org> <mailto:Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org>> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ws2-jurisdiction<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mm.icann.org_mailman_listinfo_ws2-2Djurisdiction&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=4T8UxvKRRjGx93vZCnzaETM13dJGuhA7-IdjUEJ9e8E&e=> <https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ws2-jurisdiction<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mm.icann.org_mailman_listinfo_ws2-2Djurisdiction&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=4T8UxvKRRjGx93vZCnzaETM13dJGuhA7-IdjUEJ9e8E&e=>> ____ ____ __ __ _______________________________________________ Ws2-jurisdiction mailing list Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org> <mailto:Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org>> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ws2-jurisdiction<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mm.icann.org_mailman_listinfo_ws2-2Djurisdiction&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=4T8UxvKRRjGx93vZCnzaETM13dJGuhA7-IdjUEJ9e8E&e=> <https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ws2-jurisdiction<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mm.icann.org_mailman_listinfo_ws2-2Djurisdiction&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=4T8UxvKRRjGx93vZCnzaETM13dJGuhA7-IdjUEJ9e8E&e=>> _______________________________________________ Ws2-jurisdiction mailing list Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ws2-jurisdiction<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mm.icann.org_mailman_listinfo_ws2-2Djurisdiction&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=4T8UxvKRRjGx93vZCnzaETM13dJGuhA7-IdjUEJ9e8E&e=> Your only problem with immunity seem to come up with regard to criminally fraudulent activities. You give the examples of IOC and FIFA but I have not found they having any special criminal immunities. I may not have looked up well, but did they? Were they not finally raided by both Swiss and US authorities. On the other hand there are many international organisations with legal immunities that have been gooing great global public interest work without corruption. Interpol hasnt started to take money to make international warrants disappear, not, more humbly, the International Fertilizers Development Centre, immunised under the relevant US Act, and which enters into contracts worth millions every years for globally distributed projects, has been known to do so.... (FIFA and IOC become corrupt because of commercial thinking completely overpowering public service ethics -- and if ICANN becomes so it will also be ore likely becuase of this reason. But et us not get distracted. ) And if indeed we are so concerned about ICANN's abuse of power and possible frauds and corruption, we should have let a stronger and more agile community accountability mechanism get established, like the membership based one, and with lower thresholds of triggering community action... That is where the mistake was made, and can still be corrected down the line. Do not throw the world at the mercy of US law and executive action for this purpose, especially when it related to to an infrastructure which today underpins almost every social system. This is not just some sports. (No hurt intended to sports fans, I being one.) parminder ____ On Saturday 11 February 2017 02:16 PM, Nigel Roberts wrote:____ ____ and innumerable others. In the circumstances, the real waiver across all sectors and laws would be seek immunity under the US International Organisations Immunity Act. Would you not prefer this route? If not, why so? ____ Because I do not want ICANN to have immunity. I have been involved in this community since before it was called 'ICANN', including the gTLD-MoU and the IFWP. I have seen ICANN behave as an autocrat robber baron and deprive people of their property. Fortunately, we have made great strides since then. Accountability work, between 2003 (in the case of ccTLDs) up to last years' transition, as well as the fact that, both staff and Board now have personal trust, that was totally absent 15 years ago. But both organisations and personnnel can change. Institutional immunity leads to corruption. I do not want ICANN to become a FIFA, or IOC. And the recent .AFRICA case shows, the checks and balances of the US judicial system appear to work reasonably well (I personally remain uneasy about the covenant of immunity but I expect you have no problem with that). I trust this explains why some people - and I am one - may have a diametrically opposed view to yours when it comes to ICANN immunity. _______________________________________________ Ws2-jurisdiction mailing list Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org> <mailto:Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org>> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ws2-jurisdiction<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mm.icann.org_mailman_listinfo_ws2-2Djurisdiction&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=4T8UxvKRRjGx93vZCnzaETM13dJGuhA7-IdjUEJ9e8E&e=> <https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ws2-jurisdiction<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mm.icann.org_mailman_listinfo_ws2-2Djurisdiction&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=4T8UxvKRRjGx93vZCnzaETM13dJGuhA7-IdjUEJ9e8E&e=>> ____ ____ __ __ _______________________________________________ Ws2-jurisdiction mailing list Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org> <mailto:Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org>> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ws2-jurisdiction<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mm.icann.org_mailman_listinfo_ws2-2Djurisdiction&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=4T8UxvKRRjGx93vZCnzaETM13dJGuhA7-IdjUEJ9e8E&e=> <https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ws2-jurisdiction<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mm.icann.org_mailman_listinfo_ws2-2Djurisdiction&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=4T8UxvKRRjGx93vZCnzaETM13dJGuhA7-IdjUEJ9e8E&e=>> _______________________________________________ Ws2-jurisdiction mailing list Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ws2-jurisdiction<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mm.icann.org_mailman_listinfo_ws2-2Djurisdiction&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=4T8UxvKRRjGx93vZCnzaETM13dJGuhA7-IdjUEJ9e8E&e=> _______________________________________________ Ws2-jurisdiction mailing list Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ws2-jurisdiction<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mm.icann.org_mailman_listinfo_ws2-2Djurisdiction&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=4T8UxvKRRjGx93vZCnzaETM13dJGuhA7-IdjUEJ9e8E&e=> _______________________________________________ Ws2-jurisdiction mailing list Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ws2-jurisdiction<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mm.icann.org_mailman_listinfo_ws2-2Djurisdiction&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=auyHgxBmAM7WyiHL_bP3LUU2HGtmpJs6UDz8t8hgsao&s=4T8UxvKRRjGx93vZCnzaETM13dJGuhA7-IdjUEJ9e8E&e=> _______________________________________________ Ws2-jurisdiction mailing list Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org<mailto:Ws2-jurisdiction@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ws2-jurisdiction<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mm.icann.org_mailman_listinfo_ws2-2Djurisdiction&d=DwMFAg&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=62cJFOifzm6X_GRlaq8Mo8TjDmrxdYahOP8WDDkMr4k&m=lFzxyNZsqPq3dQCf2tQLLZwXRtWJNr01a16Lb6Zo_d8&s=tc55Ch_YirCnbB-jJFF7yg-QW5vCtxAjnJrB0kpNZp4&e=>