Your post is NBA. Nothing but acronyms. Worthless.
Is ICANN just a ‘phone book’ like many experts say?
Here is some substance. More is coming up ...
Paul Rosenweig’s testimony
[ICANN Might Go Overseas]
ICANN is a non-profit corporation incorporated in California. Some say that this is a check on ICANN’s activities, since it would be subject to suit in America’s impartial, professional court system. Indeed, in July, Assistant Secretary Strickling confidently declared “ICANN is a California corporation and will remain so,” noting that a three-quarters vote of the Board would be required to change this requirement of ICANN’s Article of Incorporation, or to amend the “fundamental” bylaw requiring ICANN to maintain its primary place of business in California.6
I wish I were as confident as Assistant Secretary Strickling... The idea that ICANN would pack up and move has been contemplated by ICANN’s leadership.
Back in June 2014, ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade announced, in testimony to the French Senate, that the Board had authorized him to begin, as one of five major initiatives, the creation of a “parallel legal, international structure (maybe in Switzerland) for ICANN.”8 [snip]
... These changes were recommended even though some Members of Congress have explicitly opposed this outcome. Specifically, a 2014 letter from Senators John Thune (R–SD) and Marco Rubio (R–FL) made clear that from their perspective, government influence should not be expanded in the transition: First, ICANN must prevent governments from exercising undue influence over Internet governance. In April we led 33 Senators in a letter to NTIA regarding the IANA transition. We wrote that “[r]eplacing NTIA’s role with another governmental organization would be disastrous and we would vigorously oppose such a plan. [snip]
[more coming up in posts to ‘all’]
I also backed up my boldest claims with links.
Research done unless you can add something.