[governance] Ask Ambassador Gross

[Danny Younger]

A much better (more informative) session with
Ambassador Gross and Mike Gallagher of the DOC is
found here (media roundtable on Oct.6): 
http://www.state.gov/e/eb/rls/rm/2005/54794.htm

Excerpt:

QUESTION: Let me try to -- it was very clear the
answer, but it's true that the Department of Commerce
has a right to veto on some decision of ICANN? 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY GALLAGHER: It's not a right and
it's not a veto. It's a process and a process that
follows the sequence of decisions that are made. 

QUESTION: Let me rephrase. Is it true that the
Department of Commerce can veto some decisions of
ICANN? 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY GALLAGHER: It's not a veto in that
-- it's a process that we have a step that we preserve
within the Department of Commerce. It's not called a
veto, it's not referred to as a veto. It's not -- 

QUESTION: But it's a block -- you can block a decision
of ICANN. 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY GALLAGHER: I think as a technical
matter, we probably could. To date, we have considered
hundreds, if not thousands of directives from ICANN
and we have not "blocked," to use your word, a single
one. 



--- Avri Doria <avri at psg.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just sat in on this.  Silly waste of time.  He
> barely answered any  
> questions, pretty much stayed away from anything of
> substance and  
> pretty much fed canned propaganda.
> 
> Too bad, it could have been a useful session.  Don't
> know why i  
> expected/hoped for something more.
> 
> a.



	
		
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