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:

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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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