Roberto and all,
I agree with your assertions completely here Roberto. It is too
bad that this wasn't done with the DNSO and DNSO.ORG, eh?
It is also a shame that you are not one that practices what you
preach either, eh?
Roberto Gaetano wrote:
> Roeland Meyer wrote:
> > At 08:18 AM 4/2/99 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:
> > >On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 10:44:41PM -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> > >[...]
> > >
> > >> >Uh, Roeland, if ICANN decides that it needs to change to a Swiss
> > >> >corporation, what are you going to do? Sue in Swiss Court? Do you
> > >> >have a Swiss trademark?
> > >>
> > >> Irrelevant, they're definitely NOT going to do that, the USG won't let
> > >> them, period. Are you going to claim otherwise?
> > >
> > >1) Yes, I am going to claim otherwise. The USG has an oversight
> > >role for ICANN at this point in time; that won't continue
> > >indefinitely. The USG has made that very clear, and there is strong
> > >pressure from other governments to get the USG out of this role.
> >
> > ... and stronger pressure from Congress to keep it in the USA.
> >
> >
> IMHO, it is evident that USG does not have the power to keep ICANN in the
> USA, but also that ICANN has no reason whatsoever to come to such a radical
> decision to incorporate somewhere else.
>
> We have today a situation that privileges US versus other countries and
> governments. I believe that ICANN is ready to accept this statu quo,
> provided that USG does not pushes it too far, and I also believe that USG is
> happy with this situation.
> To affirm (or to try to affirm) that US has (or will have, or should have)
> exclusive jurisdiction on gTLD allocation or dispute resolution in this
> matter is a good example of "pushing the thing too far" that nobody has
> interest in exploiting to the ultimate consequences.
>
> What soemtimes we lose sight of, is that seldom in the real world people
> that have to take dramatic decisions that will influence the life of
> thousands of people will do this on the basis of pure consideration of
> strength: before taking radical decisions, the diplomatic way is usually
> tried out, and luckily situations in which we go to a war (in the real or
> figured sense) are a small percentage of the situations that could
> potentially lead to a war.
>
> Regards
> Roberto
Regards,
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