Tweets and Post-hearing Notes re: Cruz Hearing on IANA Transition

For background see on Domain Mondo: 

• IANA Transition Hearing: Implications of Ending US Oversight of the Internet;
• U.S. Senator Ted Cruz vs ICANN and IANA Transition: Veni, Vidi, Vici?

Selected tweets from the twittersphere and commentary by Domain Mondo:

#IANAsteward @SenTedCruz: #ICANN’s past CEO, @Fchehade, made China a central focus for the org.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) September 14, 2016

At the time obvious to many of us as a strategic blunder made by the CEO while #ICANN board was missing in action https://t.co/LmofOGtOs1

— Jay Daley (@jay_daley) September 14, 2016

And that same #ICANN Board paid him a performance bonus on the way out the door!!! https://t.co/VOy3edIgX5 https://t.co/O78Fnea7R6

— Eye On ICANN (@EyeOnICANN) September 14, 2016

Dysfunctional ICANN leadership (e.g., former CEO and Board of Directors) together with lack of transparency are among the core reasons ICANN is not trusted by some members of the global multistakeholder community.

#IANASteward @SenTedCruz: it’s troubling we heard indisputable evidence today that transition would increase power of all govts except USA.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) September 14, 2016

Yes, in the IANA Transition plan, governments get a limited increase in power, but post-transition all governments (including U.S.) are equal inside ICANN, i.e., it takes just 1 government to prevent GAC consensus advice. But, by virtue of ICANN's corporate domicile (California) and ICANN's election as an IRC §501(c)(3) non-profit, California and U.S. law will have precedence in most ICANN legal disputes (see, e.g., Domain Mondo's ICANN Litigation Status Update).

#IANASteward Strickling, @NTIAgov: #ICANN has never had anti-trust immunity & won’t have it going forward.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) September 14, 2016

Potential liability under U.S. antitrust law may be one of the most important, and powerful, accountability measures on post-transition ICANN.

#IANASteward @icann_president to @ChrisCoons: yes, the transition is aimed at preventing competing systems to current #ICANN & root system.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) September 14, 2016

Preventing a "competing" internet root may be the most compelling reason to not delay the IANA transition despite misgivings about ICANN or the IANA transition plan.


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