[At-Large] New gTLD implementation Consultation Session London 15 July 2009

[Jorge Amodio]

> Dear All. Legal traditions are that !!! old and tradicional law. World has changed and the paradigms the same ! We need to have new rules for new situations inside of the new Information Society and their new paradigms.

You are right Carlos, the world has changed and Internet has evolved
as a platform
where electronic commerce, social and political interactions take place and much
more, and like any system that evolves over time not only the
technology has to keep
pace with evolution, services, rules and regulations have to adapt as well.

But when you get into legal matters and the advancement requires modernizing the
existing laws or creating new ones, is not ICANN's job, not mine, not yours not
ALAC or any other body besides the law makers representing the people and
for those like us that have the benefit of living in a democratic
society, those law
makers are elected officials.

We can study the matter, generate discussions and exchange of ideas, and
produce recommendations, but not make the law or try to exploit the loopholes
on existing laws.

Like any other organization, ICANN can (within what is allowable by applicable
laws and the terms of the current agreement with the DoC/NTIA)  change its
bylaws and establishing the rules and regulations to govern itself, but by no
means ICANN was created as a global governing body of the Internet.

And if we are claiming to be a bottom-up organization we have to do a much
better job to facilitate the participation to the "bottom" in the process.

My .02
Jorge