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<p class="MsoNormal">I really dont find any real difference between what I said you say, and what you claim you say. Ok, lets say, you think US law is the best form of political oversight, given the present circumstances.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">[Milton L Mueller] Ah, now I see why what I am saying drives you crazy.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">You are confusing two fundamentally different things: “political oversight” and the law ICANN is incorporated under. Political accountability has less to do with
which jurisdiction ICANN is incorporated in than you think. The best form of _political_ oversight is ICANN’s own MS processes, which are transnational, assuming we make the Board more accountable through a better appeals process and membership. In other words,
the polity is global, and political accountability means that ICANN makes and enforces policies that its global constituents want, that its representative processes are actually representative and its elected officials get thrown out if they do the wrong things.
California corporation law is merely a mechanism for giving it a legal personality and making it follow certain procedural rules. Yes, it does make a difference that it is in the US rather than, say, Luxembourg or Tanzania, but that should not affect the policies
it adopts through its own processes. Once you cut the cord to the US Commerce Department, the fact that it obtains its legal personality in California is not all that relevant.
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<p class="MsoNormal">You are saying US law is more accessible and offers better accountability than international law to non US people!!! What a high-handed claim to make!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">[Milton L Mueller] nothing is more high-handed and inaccessible than international law, my friend. When have you ever used international law to do anything important
for yourself or other people? I see a few African dictators convicted of war crimes by the ICJ 10 years and millions and millions of dollars in court costs after the fact.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are you sure you will like to seen saying that kind of a 'silly' thing (a term you use often :) ). May we just have the basic decency to ask non US people if this is what they think :).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">[Milton L Mueller] Sure. Ask anyone you like. But provide a real basis for comparison, i.e., the comparison is about legal personality and not political oversight,
and don’t wriggle out of the issue by contrasting US law with something that doesn’t exist.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">I propose a multiple-choice survey question to be circulated among multinational domain name service operators located in developing world countries:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">Would you prefer that ICANN be incorporated under
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">a) California corporation law,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">b) an unspecified international organization host country agreement developed by a collection of governments guided by a new international treaty you don’t know
the content of, which hasn’t been tested in adjudication, and which won’t be in place for 10 years;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">c) Indian corporation law
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">d) Chinese corporation law
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">e) Russian Corporation law or
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">e) the International Court of Justice in the Hague.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.25pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">Go ahead and ask. I’d be as interested in the results as you. We’d all probably learn something.
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