<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div></div><div>The Administration is probably open to much broader change than the Congress. How far that goes, I'm not sure.</div><div><br>On Oct 20, 2015, at 7:33 AM, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
  
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Tuesday 20 October 2015 04:54 PM,
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      <div>It sounds like Larry was giving an assessment of the current
        Congress. That is not necessarily the only path forward for the
        Obama Administration, they could try to move forward without
        Congressional support.</div>
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    Are you seriously suggesting that Obama administration could be open
    to consider jurisdictional change?<br>
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    parminder  <br>
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        On Oct 20, 2015, at 7:15 AM, Padmini <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:pdmnbaruah@gmail.com">pdmnbaruah@gmail.com</a>>
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          <p dir="ltr">Adding to that, he also said that the issue of
            jurisdiction doesn't relate to the physical presence of
            ICANN  as much as the jurisdiction of dispute resolution
            mechanisms, and to not focus on the former which is not as
            relevant. <br>
            Basically, no move in jurisdiction will ever be supported. </p>
          <div class="gmail_quote">On 20 Oct 2015 16:43, "Pranesh
            Prakash" <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:pranesh@cis-india.org">pranesh@cis-india.org</a>>
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              .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">At a
              meeting with civil society actors, Larry Strickling of the
              US NTIA was asked by my colleague Padmini whether the US
              Congress would support the multistakeholder model if
              ICANN's jurisdiction were to shift.<br>
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              He said that it wouldn't.<br>
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              -- <br>
              Pranesh Prakash<br>
              Policy Director, Centre for Internet and Society<br>
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