[governance] US Congrerss & JPA

[Roland Perry]

In message <763885.39142.qm at web83901.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>, at 07:34:29 on 
Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Eric Dierker <cogitoergosum at sbcglobal.net> writes
>Face it.  As they operate now. They could not be in compliance anywhere.
>Why doesn't someone ask the "jurisdiction" if they want ICANN.

I don't know what you mean by "compliance" in this context. If it's 
company and taxation law, and somewhere they can have the most prudent 
framework for contracts with third parties, then all the places I 
mentioned should be fine.

>--- 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
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>
>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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