[At-Large] [lac-discuss-en] Vistaprint is abandoning .vista

[Evan Leibovitch]

Every ICANN president has vigorously asserted that ICANN is not a
regulator. This is not merely a casual opinion, it is a demand imposed upon
them by ICANN's lawyers. To admit that ICANN is a regulator - - or even
provides some regulatory function - - is to invite even deeper state
scrutiny and attempts to make ICANN into a multilateral, treaty-based body
than now exists.

In a submission to ICANN's Accountability and Transparency review team more
than a decade ago, a number of At-Large members submitted an analysis that
called on ICANN to recognize the obvious and embrace its inner regulator:

https://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-atrt2-02apr13/pdfNKvEtbrZ3u.pdf

Not much has changed. While a few references are dated, the paper's
observations and commentaries are as valid now as then.

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Evan Leibovitch, Toronto
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On Jul 13, 2018 5:13 PM, "Kan Kaili" <kankaili at gmail.com> wrote:

Indeed Goran has said "ICANN is not a regulator" many times.  I have heard
him saying that myself.  However, this is something I disagree with him.

Again, in my personal opinion, as long as the positioning of ICANN stays
blurry as it is now, the confusion will only accumulate until it creats a
crisis.


Kaili



----- Original Message -----
From: "Johan Helsingius" <julf at julf.com>
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Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: [At-Large] [lac-discuss-en] Vistaprint is abandoning .vista


> On 12-07-18 19:56, Kan Kaili wrote:
>> In my opinion, ICANN should play the role of a regulator.
>
> Our esteemed CEO, Göran Marby, has a number of phrases he repeats
> fairly often. "ICANN is not a regulator" is one of them.
>
> Julf
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