<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Face it.  As they operate now. They could not be in compliance anywhere.</DIV>
<DIV>Why doesn't someone ask the "jurisdiction" if they want ICANN.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 8/10/09, Roland Perry <I><roland@internetpolicyagency.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Roland Perry <roland@internetpolicyagency.com><BR>Subject: Re: [governance] US Congrerss & JPA<BR>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org<BR>Date: Monday, August 10, 2009, 2:00 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>In message <<A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=alpine.LRH.2.00.0908092108310.28266@localhost.localdomain" ymailto="mailto:alpine.LRH.2.00.0908092108310.28266@localhost.localdomain">alpine.LRH.2.00.0908092108310.28266@localhost.localdomain</A>>, at 21:10:43 on Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law <<A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=froomkin@law.miami.edu" ymailto="mailto:froomkin@law.miami.edu">froomkin@law.miami.edu</A>> writes<BR>> I'd say, if I were ICANN's lawyer, that I'd want to move to Geneva about four seconds after the US government cut the tether.  And I bet the contingency plan to do just that is not just fully written, but years old.<BR><BR>They've been looking at it seriously for about a year. It's one of those strange ICANN-ims that seems *really* important one minute, and they don't want to talk about the next.<BR><BR>Having done a study of
 which jurisdictions would be "best" they came up with Belgium and Geneva, although my own experience of not-for-profits in the UK leads me to be sceptical of the stated reasons they dismissed the UK [hint: it doesn't have to be a Registered Charity].<BR><BR>(Criteria were things like friendly company/tax law for not-for-profits, good healthcare and other employee benefits, freedom from excessive visa requirements for visitors, etc etc).<BR>-- Roland Perry<BR>____________________________________________________________<BR>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<BR>    <A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=governance@lists.cpsr.org" ymailto="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</A><BR>To be removed from the list, send any message to:<BR>    <A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org"
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