The GNSO Issue Report stated the ICANN General Counsel's opinion that  
many of these issues lumped into FFH are outside of the scope of  
ICANN's mission and that the overall question of how to mitigate  
cybercrime is broader than the GNSO policy development process.   But  
30% of the council agreed to explore the issue further in a PDP so  
that is what we are now doing (trying to learn what could be within  
scope, etc.).   We need to resist the urge to regulate in those areas  
that do not relate to ICANN's mission, even though ICANN is handy for  
general regulation of things that relate to the Internet.  ICANN's  
authority to meddle is not unlimited.

Robin


On May 30, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Non-Commercial User Constituency
>> Also, you state that this is out of ICANN's scope.  Since
>> ICANN controls the granting of granting of domain names and
>> is responsible for the security of the Internet, why wouldn't
>
> Whoa. ICANN does not control the granting of all domain names, it
> coordinates the assignment of top level domains and the management of
> the root zone file. As an extension of that power, it imposes some
> contractual obligations on domain name registries. But not on hosting
> services per se.
>
> Also, to say that ICANN is "responsible for the security of the
> Internet" is a vast overstatement. It is responsible for the  
> security of
> DNS. That's all.




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