Re: [wg-review] Clarifications requested from BoD, Staff, NC,TC, Chair prior to co-Chair elections

["Milton Mueller" <Mueller@syr.edu>]

From the White Paper:

"Comments: Several commenters suggested that the U.S. Government should provide full antitrust immunity or indemnification for the new corporation. Others noted that potential antitrust liability would provide an important safeguard against institutional inflexibility and abuses of power. 
  
Response: Applicable antitrust law will provide accountability to and protection for the international Internet community. Legal challenges and lawsuits can be expected within the normal course of business for any enterprise and the new corporation should anticipate this reality." 

Case closed.

>>> Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> 01/10/01 08:11PM >>>
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:40:01PM -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:

It is the case that a primary legal concern (perhaps THE primary legal
concern) in the formation of ICANN was how to avoid anti-trust action --
if things went as envisioned, ICANN would be the single controller for
access to two unique resources -- the central root dns registry, and the
central IP address registry.  This is a pure monopoly. 



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