{"594070":{"#nid":"594070","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Panel Assessing Whether ICANN\u2019s US Jurisdiction Hurts Accountability, Domain Name Owners ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.internetgovernance.org\/2017\/07\/20\/icann-and-jurisdiction-working-group-reaches-critical-juncture\/\u0022\u003EInternet Governance Project blog\u003C\/a\u003E, directed by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/e3f10eae-fa4b-5eb2-bf42-0735bd8360a7\u0022\u003EMilton Mueller\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech, was quoted\u0026nbsp;in the July 31, 2017, edition of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EWashington Internet Daily\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;on whether \u0026ldquo;U.S. foreign policy hampers internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from approving registries and accrediting registrars, and what impact jurisdiction has on delegation of country code top-level domain names (ccTLDs).\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFarzanah Badiei,\u0026nbsp;Executive Director of Internet Governance Project, was quoted in the same article.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Internet Governance Project (IGP) highlighted these issues in April comments and a July 20 blog. It said as part of its foreign policy, the U.S. imposes sanctions on other countries that when applied to domain name registrars and registries \u0026ldquo;can hamper access to the domain name system by innocent users and busi\u0026shy;nesses.\u0026rdquo; The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) maintains a list of designated nationals U.S. persons can\u0026rsquo;t transact with, IGP said. Without a general license, even those not listed often can\u0026rsquo;t freely transact with U.S. persons but must get an OFAC license, it said. That involves a long process and ICANN doesn\u0026rsquo;t com\u0026shy;mit itself to applying for a license for registrars, it said.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EU.S. laws such as 1914\u0026rsquo;s Trading With the Enemy Act, the Cuban Assets Control Regulation and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIranian Sanctions and Transaction Regulation govern many aspects of transactions between those countries and the U.S., IGP wrote. The U.S. also can enforce sanctions through executive orders that could affect domain name system (DNS) customers, it said: Use of executive orders can create uncertainty as presidential administrations change.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAsked whether the subgroup is likely to act given the few responses, IGP Executive Director Farzanah Badiei said: \u0026ldquo;We can take concrete actions and advocate for resolving the issues ... or at least express them and establish that they are valid issues that ordinary customers of DNS face.\u0026rdquo; Actions could include changing ICANN policies, clarifying complicated OFAC issues for DNS users and seeking a general OFAC license, said Badiei, a panel member. ICANN jurisdictional issues should be resolved through legal or policy solutions that come from within the organization, she said. Changing ICANN\u0026rsquo;s jurisdiction or making it\u0026nbsp;an international body, as some prefer, \u0026ldquo;is not the answer.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/washingtoninternetdaily.com\/\u0022\u003EFull Article\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;may be located on the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EWashington Internet Daily\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;site\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E*Subscription required\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2017-08-04 15:00:54","changed_gmt":"2017-08-11 17:28:09","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"dream on 3","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/washingtoninternetdaily.com\/","dateline":{"date":"2017-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"459611":{"id":"459611","type":"image","title":"Internet Governance Project","body":null,"created":"1449256361","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:12:41","changed":"1475895204","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:24","alt":"Internet Governance Project","file":{"fid":"203573","name":"internet_governance_project_large.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/internet_governance_project_large.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/internet_governance_project_large.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":106477,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/internet_governance_project_large.jpg?itok=iOp21ZgS"}}},"media_ids":["459611"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4456","name":"ICANN"},{"id":"175086","name":"U.S. jurisdiction"},{"id":"143551","name":"Internet Governance Project"},{"id":"172660","name":"IGP"},{"id":"169170","name":"Milton Mueller"},{"id":"626","name":"public policy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}