Re: [ga] Court oversight

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
> I don't see how an order to ICANN to have a registry it doesn't control 
> do something would be effective.

I don't disagree with you - such an order would place ICANN in the 
position of being ordered to do something that it does not have the 
clear power to do.

What I am pointing out is that there is A) a lot of non-understanding 
about what DNS is and what ICANN can and cannot do and B) ICANN has 
created a situation in which it does exercise a fair amount of real 
control in matters that relate to domain names and creates an impression 
that it could, if it were compelled to do so, cause the effect the court 
desires.

		--karl--