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On 03/05/2013 06:41 PM, McTim wrote:<br>
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On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Guru गुरु <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Guru@itforchange.net"><Guru@itforchange.net></a> wrote:
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On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Dominique Lacroix <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dl@panamo.eu"><dl@panamo.eu></a> wrote:
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Le 04/03/13 22:31, McTim a écrit :
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Dominique Lacroix <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dl@panamo.eu"><dl@panamo.eu></a> wrote:
Dear Sala,
Thanks Carlos for the mention. Yes, I distributed a paper leaflet to some
friends in Paris, during the WSIS.
The demonstration is clear.
Two journal articles are going to be published. Please, just wait a few
days.
I asked the question about tax heavens to Fadi Chehadé in Paris, and to 3
members of ICANN board/GNSO.
Why would you have any reasonable expectation that ICANN would have
anything to do with this issue?
Absolutely right. ICANN has not anything to do with public interest.
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ICANN has a very narrow remit. Asking them to police where
corporations are housed is well out of scope.
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McTim
Who should take care of the public interest aspects, if you think ICANN
should not do it? What is your view?
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I never said that, that was Dominique ("ICANN has not anything to do
with public interest.") being facetious.
I am pleased there is a PIC being put in place.
As far as international taxation issues, perhaps it is time for an IGO
to take this in hand, or perhaps a new MS body?
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Apart from international taxation issues, there are several other
aspects as mails on this thread have mentioned - the need to have
diversity of ownership of GTLDs vs the current extreme
concentration, rules of how the gtld 'owners' will deal with
requests for domain names with those gtld extensions including
support for multilingual features etc etc<br>
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You say " perhaps it is time for an IGO
to take this in hand... or perhaps a new MS body?
" Thanks for acknowledging that there is a need for issues like
these (we call it 'public interest issues'_ to be dealt with beyond
the current 'ICANN' structures<br>
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can you elaborate how this new body would be accountable and
effective in addressing the problems of concentration of ownership
and other public interest issues<br>
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regards,<br>
Guru<br>
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I do know however that it (tax havens) shouldn't be part of ICANN's scope.
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