[governance] [bestbits] US Support for Multistakeholder Governance is Conditional on US Remaining in Control

[genekimmelman at gmail.com]

The Administration is probably open to much broader change than the Congress. How far that goes, I'm not sure.

> On Oct 20, 2015, at 7:33 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
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>> On Tuesday 20 October 2015 04:54 PM, genekimmelman at gmail.com wrote:
>> It sounds like Larry was giving an assessment of the current Congress. That is not necessarily the only path forward for the Obama Administration, they could try to move forward without Congressional support.
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> Gene
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> Are you seriously suggesting that Obama administration could be open to consider jurisdictional change?
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> parminder  
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>> On Oct 20, 2015, at 7:15 AM, Padmini <pdmnbaruah at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Adding to that, he also said that the issue of jurisdiction doesn't relate to the physical presence of ICANN  as much as the jurisdiction of dispute resolution mechanisms, and to not focus on the former which is not as relevant. 
>>> Basically, no move in jurisdiction will ever be supported.
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>>>> On 20 Oct 2015 16:43, "Pranesh Prakash" <pranesh at cis-india.org> wrote:
>>>> At a meeting with civil society actors, Larry Strickling of the US NTIA was asked by my colleague Padmini whether the US Congress would support the multistakeholder model if ICANN's jurisdiction were to shift.
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>>>> He said that it wouldn't.
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>>>> https://twitter.com/pranesh/status/656422297876561921
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>>>> -- 
>>>> Pranesh Prakash
>>>> Policy Director, Centre for Internet and Society
>>>> http://cis-india.org | tel:+91 80 40926283
>>>> sip:pranesh at ostel.co | xmpp:pranesh at cis-india.org
>>>> https://twitter.com/pranesh
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