[governance] who owns the new gTLDs?

[Guru गुरु]

On 03/05/2013 06:41 PM, McTim wrote:
> Guru,
>
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Guru गुरु <Guru at itforchange.net> wrote:
>> On 03/05/2013 03:39 AM, McTim wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Dominique Lacroix <dl at panamo.eu> wrote:
>>>> Le 04/03/13 22:31, McTim a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Dominique Lacroix <dl at panamo.eu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Sala,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Carlos for the mention. Yes, I distributed a paper leaflet to some
>>>> friends in Paris, during the WSIS.
>>>> The demonstration is clear.
>>>> Two journal articles are going to be published. Please, just wait a few
>>>> days.
>>>> I asked the question about tax heavens to Fadi Chehadé in Paris, and to 3
>>>> members of ICANN board/GNSO.
>>>>
>>>> Why would you have any reasonable expectation that ICANN would have
>>>> anything to do with this issue?
>>>>
>>>> Absolutely right. ICANN has not anything to do with public interest.
>>> ICANN has a very narrow remit.  Asking them to police where
>>> corporations are housed is well out of scope.
>> McTim
>>
>> Who should take care of the public interest aspects, if you think ICANN
>> should not do it? What is your view?
>
> I never said that, that was Dominique ("ICANN has not anything to do
> with public interest.") being facetious.
>
> I am pleased there is a PIC being put in place.
>
> As far as international taxation issues, perhaps it is time for an IGO
> to take this in hand, or perhaps a new MS body?
Apart from international taxation issues, there are several other 
aspects as mails on this thread have mentioned - the need to have 
diversity of ownership of GTLDs vs the current extreme concentration, 
rules of how the gtld 'owners' will deal with requests for domain names 
with those gtld extensions including support for multilingual features 
etc etc

You say " perhaps it is time for an IGO to take this in hand... or 
perhaps a new MS body? " Thanks for acknowledging that there is a need 
for issues like these (we call it 'public interest issues'_ to be dealt 
with beyond the current 'ICANN' structures

can you elaborate how this new body would be accountable and effective 
in addressing the problems of concentration of ownership and other 
public interest issues

regards,
Guru

> I do know however that it (tax havens) shouldn't be part of ICANN's scope.
>

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