But if that's the meaning of the laguage, shouldn't we still be worried
about it? I would think that the mission statement SHOULD
"prohibit ICANN from imposing other obligations on
registries/registrars," no? That is, ICANN should not be
permitted to impose obligations on registries/registrars, by contract or
otherwise, obligations that are not within its mission - doesn't this
language cut dramatically against that?
David
At 04:04 PM 8/18/2015, Paul Rosenzweig wrote:
Ahhh … in context I think this
is clear (or at least it is to me). The concern was that by
restricting ICANN’s mission and prohibiting it from regulating services
or content we might inadvertently be also prohibiting ICANN for imposing
other obligations on registries/registrars. All this is intended to
say (and the language may be inartful) is that the mission limitation on
regulation of services and content does not OTHERWISE limit the remaining
contractual authorities of ICANN. That, at least, was the thrust of
the conversation in Paris and that is what this summary in para 158 is
intended to capture.
Paul
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Subject: "Limitations on ICANN's contracting
authority."
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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