[governance] more Re: Ideas that this mailing list has agreed to

[Adam Peake]

How about:

"Appropriate commitments by the authority of the country that hosts 
ICANN should provide privileges and immunities to ICANN to ensure 
that it is able to provide global service in accordance with its 
bylaws and mission. Such binding commitments should ensure that: 
[etc]"

Adam





At 1:50 PM -0400 11/9/05, Jacqueline Morris wrote:
>in the first point - should the wording be government or should it be
>entity, or something like that? Cause it is possible that  a corporate
>entity or IGO or something could, in a MSH mode, try to overturn a
>decision.
>I would like to keep the host part as the host country agreement is
>something that I think should be a pretty important part of the ICANN
>reform...
>Jacqueline
>
>On 11/9/05, Adam Peake (ajp at glocom.ac.jp) <apeake at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  And this is OK, or not acceptable:
>>
>>  "Appropriate commitments by a host government should provide
>>  privileges and immunities to ICANN to ensure that it is able to
>>  provide global service in accordance with its bylaws and mission. Such
>>  binding commitments should ensure that:
>>
>>  * decisions taken by ICANN cannot be overturned by any single government;
>>  * all countries and stakeholders have the opportunity to access the
>>  resources managed by ICANN and its related entities;
>>  * ICANN is able to enter into commercial and other agreements in
>>  keeping with requirements of its bylaws and mission, enabling it to
>>  provide and receive DNS services globally, and
>>  * all stakeholders have the opportunity to participate in ICANN's
>>  Internet governance processes, without being affected by the policies
>>  of any single government."
>>
>>  (I would like to change "host government", best to remove all
>>  suggestion of a host country agreement which I believe would be a
>>  problematic term for many governments.)
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>>  Adam
>>
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