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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Sorry for being too cryptic, too
rhetorical and a tad visionary. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The idea was that we develop new global
institutions and not rely on national judges applying national law. ICANN is an
existence proof – whatever one thinks of it, warts and all, there are no judges
from authoritarian nations (only the USA) making decisions for it –
although the disturbing increase in the authority of GAC and the growing
willingness of ICANN management to kow tow to those in power, including such
governments, is worth noting.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Rony, here is what I said: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>How can we better realize
the potential of the Internet to offer global services without ensnaring end
users/customers in the idiosyncracies of territorial jurisdictions? How can we
create a global -- and globally accountable -- "jurisdiction" within
which these services can be offered?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>It’s a vision of potential, nothing
more nothing less. To ask “how does it work in practice” is indeed
the question that must be faced and answered. But if you don’t know where
you are headed, if you have no vision of where things could go, that is just as
dangerous as having a vision of possibility and no clear idea of how to implement
it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">KovenRonald@aol.com</st1:PersonName> [mailto:<st1:PersonName w:st="on">KovenRonald@aol.com</st1:PersonName>]
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 07, 2008 2:10
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Milton
L Mueller</st1:PersonName>; <st1:PersonName w:st="on">governance@lists.cpsr.org</st1:PersonName>;
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">KovenRonald@aol.com</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Embench@aol.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [governance] A Wave
of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Geneva><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Geneva;color:black'>Okay, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Milton</st1:place></st1:City>, and how does that distinction without
an apparent difference that I can see work in practice exactly ? <br>
<br>
Maybe business and civil society should run their own private world court
system ?<br>
<br>
Bests, Rony<br>
<br>
<br>
</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Ahem. I did not say
“international” I said “global.”</span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Geneva FAMILY=SANSSERIF><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Geneva;color:black'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font><font
color=black FAMILY=SERIF><span style='color:black'> <br>
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</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Geneva FAMILY=SANSSERIF><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Geneva;color:black'><br>
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</span></font><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:black'> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">KovenRonald@aol.com</st1:PersonName>
[mailto:<st1:PersonName w:st="on">KovenRonald@aol.com</st1:PersonName>]<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 07, 2008 11:47
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">governance@lists.cpsr.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [governance] A Wave
of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears</span></font><font size=2 color=black
face=Geneva FAMILY=SANSSERIF><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Geneva;
color:black'><br>
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</span></font><font color=black FAMILY=SERIF><span style='color:black'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Geneva FAMILY=SANSSERIF><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Geneva;color:black'><br>
Dear All --<br>
<br>
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Milton</st1:place></st1:City> suggests
a "global jurisdiction" for Internet.<br>
<br>
Have you really thought through the political and legal implications of that ?<br>
<br>
Maybe with Chinese, Russian and Saudi judges sitting on such a court ?<br>
<br>
Egads!<br>
<br>
Rony Koven</span></font><font face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF><span
style='font-family:Arial'><br>
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