[governance] Does it matter which legal system ICANN operates under?

[Katim S. Touray]

Dear all,

To help frame the discussion, here's the link to ICANN's IANA contract:

http://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/iana/contract-01oct12-en.pdf

There's also the USDOC amendment to the renewal of the ICANN-Verisign
contract:

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/amendment_32_11292012.pdf

As has been pointed out, ICANN doesn't have anything to do with Internet
content and whether or not it is monitored. However, there's no doubt that
revelations about US government surveillance of Internet data harms their
case in the debate on multi-stakeholder Internet governance, including of
ICANN itself and matters under its purview.

Katim


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Chaitanya Dhareshwar <chaitanyabd at gmail.com
> wrote:

> That would be my understanding as well Nick. However in ICANN's case I
> understand there are clauses that prevent them shifting HQ to another
> jurisdiction/country.
>
> -C
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at ccianet.org>wrote:
>
>> The law governing a contract is entirely separate from the legal
>> jurisdiction in which the parties to it are domiciled.
>> On 11 Jun 2013 23:19, "Avri Doria" <avri at ella.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
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>>> Well said Nick.
>>>
>>> Anriette
>>>
>>> On 11/06/2013 10:07, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
>>> > Dear all,
>>> >
>>> > Reading the governance list, I'm struck by how little discussion there
>>> is on how to take the things that you presumably agree on (objection to
>>> overbroad surveillance, etc.) and do something productive with it; it
>>> seems almost all effort is spent trying to score points against factions.
>>> >
>>> > Is this really the best that this list can do?
>>> >
>>> > Other lists - like Best Bits - are responding with statements and the
>>> like on topical subjects. Would you rather score points against one
>>> another, or score points for the public interest?
>>>
>>> - --
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