[governance] Statement made in Plenary

[Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law]

Isn't the best solution to split off the regulation of ccTLDs for just 
this reason?

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Vittorio Bertola wrote:

> Jacqueline Morris wrote:
>> I agree.
>> Once things start to get politicised, there lies the problem. I don't
>> think it's necessarily ICANN, or the US, but all Governments can  (and
>> sometimes do) apply local law to companies to further their political
>> agendas.
>
> I still have a problem with using private law to regulate an
> "international global facility", as long as these private law
> arrangements entrust individual companies with the factual power to deny
> the service - or make it very hard to obtain - to entire countries or
> categories of people (language communities might be another example).
>
> I don't think that hard global public regulation, i.e. treaties, is the
> best way to solve the problem either, but I also don't think that
> business decisions deriving from the interest of one party only should
> be the one and only driver of the evolution of the Internet.
>

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