[governance] US Congrerss & JPA

[Eric Dierker]

Face it.  As they operate now. They could not be in compliance anywhere.
Why doesn't someone ask the "jurisdiction" if they want ICANN.

--- On Mon, 8/10/09, Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:


From: Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com>
Subject: Re: [governance] US Congrerss & JPA
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Date: Monday, August 10, 2009, 2:00 PM


In message <alpine.LRH.2.00.0908092108310.28266 at localhost.localdomain>, at 21:10:43 on Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law <froomkin at law.miami.edu> writes
> I'd say, if I were ICANN's lawyer, that I'd want to move to Geneva about four seconds after the US government cut the tether.  And I bet the contingency plan to do just that is not just fully written, but years old.

They've been looking at it seriously for about a year. It's one of those strange ICANN-ims that seems *really* important one minute, and they don't want to talk about the next.

Having done a study of which jurisdictions would be "best" they came up with Belgium and Geneva, although my own experience of not-for-profits in the UK leads me to be sceptical of the stated reasons they dismissed the UK [hint: it doesn't have to be a Registered Charity].

(Criteria were things like friendly company/tax law for not-for-profits, good healthcare and other employee benefits, freedom from excessive visa requirements for visitors, etc etc).
-- Roland Perry
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