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• Subject: ICANN
• From: Howard Flack <Howard.Flack@cryst.unige.ch>
• Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:06:13 GMT

The underlying legal basis for ICANN was also the subject of a newly
released law review article by Prof. Michael Froomkin of the University
of
Miami School of Law. The lengthy article is available at
http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann.pdf. Prof. Froomkin is
highly critical of the relationship between ICANN and the U.S.
Department of
Commerce. He states: "ICANN is formally a private nonprofit California
corporation, created in response to a summoning by U.S. Government
officials, to take regulatory actions that the Department of Commerce
was
unable or unwilling to take directly. If the U.S. government is
laundering
its policy making through ICANN, it violates the [U.S. Administrative
Procedure Act]; if ICANN is, in fact, independent , then the federal
government's decisions to have ICANN manage a public resource of such
importance, and to allow indeed, require -- it to enforce regulatory
conditions on users of that resource, violate the non-delegation
doctrine of
the U.S. Constitution." It remains to be seen whether a U.S. court will
adopt Prof. Froomkin's view of ICANN's legal status.


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