[governance] IPW - ICANN CEO Wants To Shift “Centre Of Gravity” Away From US

[McTim]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Chaitanya Dhareshwar
<chaitanyabd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Side effects: Ok so some of this is conjecture; but not all. Basically the
> leeway a country gives organizations based in it (as opposed to one based
> out of another country) is often limited by their perception of it. ICANN
> would not have immunity to anything in most countries, so for example if
> they chose to be based in Dubai .XXX may be considered illegal

Well the IANA contract MUST be administered from the USA according to
the contract itself, so I think that "based in" may be a misnomer.
ICANN has had offices in other countries for a while, but those nation
states haven't (yet) tried to impose authority over all of ICANN.  I
see no difference now with the hubs being put in place.


, and the
> ICANN local "fragment" (using "fragment" here as opposed to "local office"
> since I expect they will operate somewhat independently in most regions).


I think this is an assumption that may not be correct.


> Various regional regulation would affect ICANN's activities - that's the
> side effects I'm talking about.
>
> If there's an ICANN India "fragment" we can expect regulatory interference -
> if not now then in some time - but it'll more likely be there than not.

Well they could try, but I imagine any country that attempts that
would see their 'hub" dissapear.


>
> CoG: Centre of Gravity :-/
>
> The "centre of power" need not be a government, but it would be one country.
> For most multinational organizations there's always one centre - unless they
> plan to have 10 CEOs and 10 top-management teams. And the centre of power
> would invariably be in the country where the head office is.


I see, but the current strategy tries to spread this "centre of power"
throughout the world.

>
> If however ICANN does decide to have X-number of top-management teams, a
> fair few of the current stuff that happens could be deemed illegal within a
> local context (see: side effects).


I think there will only be one team, globally distributed.

Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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