[discuss] Interesting article

Tue Jan 14 15:35:11 UTC 2014

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>> 8. ICANN affirms its commitments to: ... (b) remain a not for profit
>> corporation, headquartered in the United States of America with offices
>> around the world to meet the needs of a global community; (end quote)
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>> So this clears up Jorge's understanding of ICANN locations, perhaps Ali
> is just left with updating the headquarters address (although this depends
> on when he wrote the article)
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AoC where negotiated and signed previous to ICANN's move from Marina del
Rey to Los Angeles, and previous to Fadi's transformation plan of
decentralizing and having ICANN operating as a US centric organization.

> Now this is a good topic for the meeting in Brazil: globalization of
>> ICANN, what a new affirmation of commitments might look like (building on
>> what we've got, which doesn't look so bad), how to design a new host
>> country agreement, etc.  Add globalization of the IANA functions and there
>> are two pretty heavy topics.  Take a lot more time than we have between now
>> and April 23-24, but can make a start in Brazil.
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The meeting on Brazil should not focus on ICANN but the overarching
principles that can improve Internet governance and cooperation.

Regards
Jorge
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