[bestbits] US Support for Multistakeholder Governance is Conditional on US Remaining in Control

[parminder]

On Tuesday 20 October 2015 04:45 PM, Padmini wrote:
>
> 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.
>

That is a deliberately misleading statement -- jurisdiction has not only
to do with judicial oversight or enforcement of dispute resolutions
mechanisms-- it is much more important vis a vis ICANN continuing to be
subject to all arms of the government of the US, judicial, legislative
and executive....

He is able to speak like that bec the 'ICANN crowd' has traditionally
shown itself to be a gullible group, ready or willing to be easily
mislead with regard to these key political issues, which are of central
importance to the people of the world
 
>
> Basically, no move in jurisdiction will ever be supported.
>

This was always known..... Civil society groups should have put the two
issues of 'jurisdiction' and 'external oversight' (external to the
current ICANN power configurations which extent to a good part of the so
called ICANN communtiy - for instance see ALAC's lame give in ) up front
to be resolved first, without sepnding months on the intricacies of
Californian law on non profits, and what constitutes a board fiduciary
duty, and such triva...

parminder

> On 20 Oct 2015 16:43, "Pranesh Prakash" <pranesh at cis-india.org
> <mailto:pranesh at cis-india.org>> wrote:
>
>     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.
>
>     He said that it wouldn't.
>
>     https://twitter.com/pranesh/status/656422297876561921
>
>     -- 
>     Pranesh Prakash
>     Policy Director, Centre for Internet and Society
>     http://cis-india.org | tel:+91 80 40926283 <tel:%2B91%2080%2040926283>
>     sip:pranesh at ostel.co <mailto:sip%3Apranesh at ostel.co> |
>     xmpp:pranesh at cis-india.org <mailto:xmpp%3Apranesh at cis-india.org>
>     https://twitter.com/pranesh
>
>
>     ____________________________________________________________
>     You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>          bestbits at lists.bestbits.net <mailto:bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>.
>     To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit:
>          http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits
>
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________
> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>      bestbits at lists.bestbits.net.
> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit:
>      http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.igcaucus.org/pipermail/bestbits/attachments/20151020/cd5cc4e7/attachment.htm>