<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Thank you Milton! </div><div><br></div><div>All regulatory statutes command to pursue the "public interest", because they presume that private behavior, unregulated, will diverge from the public interest. </div><div><br></div><div>So if we don't want ICANN to be the regulator, we simply need another, higher instance where all USERS can go to and claim for redress if private actors of/in the DNS have undermined the public interest.</div><div><br></div><div>ICANN can still remain the instance for dispute resolution between its contracted parties.</div><div><br></div><div>But have to sort out what we want first, then who is responsible for that, and then we might need to go and ask for a change in the organizational blueprint to reflect those responsibilities clearly. <br><br>Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez<div>+506 8837 7176 (New Number)</div><div>Enviado desde mi iPhone</div></div><div><br>El dic 26, 2014, a las 8:12 AM, Milton L Mueller <<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu">mueller@syr.edu</a>> escribió:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">If ICANN regulates “in the public interest” it has an open-ended mandate to do anything, there are no limits on its scope of authority.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">That is why we should not conceive of ICANN’s authority as containing a mandate to pursue “the general welfare” or “the public interest.”
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