[governance] host country agreements considered dangerous

[klaus grewlich]

What course of action to follow? Greetings Klaus W. Grewlich

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Datum: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 12:04:41 -0400 (EDT)
Von: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin at law.miami.edu>
An: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Betreff: [governance] host country agreements considered dangerous

> I wish someone would explain to me in simple words why on earth one would 
> want ICANN to have the sort of status implied by a host country agreement.
> 
> The history of ICANN is replete with examples of its misbehavior, and lack
> of budget discipline.  It suffers deeply from a lack of accountability. 
> Giving it protection from law -- which is what host country agreements 
> mostly do -- hardly seems like the right reaction unless we first craft an
> alternate accountability mechanism.
> 
> Has everyone forgotten that until the US Government stopped it by amending
> the MoU, ICANN was refusing to process zone file changes for ccTLDs that 
> had not signed agreements promising to obey ICANN, pay its levies, and 
> allowing ICANN to raise the fees by 15% per year?
> 
> Adult supervision is essential.  Or at least the threat of it.
> 
> I fully understand why people might think the current arrangement is 
> deficient: the US has been an erratic steward at best, and the current 
> administration does not inspure trust.  But the alterantive being proposed
> does not seem any better, and in fact is worse in that if things go badly 
> wrong at ICANN some day there will be darn little we can do about it.
> 
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