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"Limitations on ICANN's contracting authority."
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"Mueller, Milton L" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mueller, Milton L
Date:
Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:53:35 +0000
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I was reading the CCWG proposal and had one of those WTF moments....

Can someone who was in Paris or who was more involved in CCWG tell me what this means:

"The CCWG-Accountability ...concluded that the prohibition on regulation of services that use the Internet's unique identifiers or the content that
they carry or provide does not act as a restraint on ICANN's contracting authority."

WHAT???

Since ICANN regulates by contracts with registries and registrars, the prohibition on regulation of services that use the Internet's unique identifiers or the content that  they carry or provide had bloody well better limit ICANN's ability to regulate services and content via contracts, otherwise it doesn't prohibit anything. Am I missing something here?

Dr. Milton L. Mueller
Professor, School of Public Policy
Georgia Institute of Technology

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