About Russia --- @Juan. Thanks for this piece. This issue of jurisdiction is a major issue at ICANN becuae of the historical nature on the establishment of ICANN under US laws in California, I believe negotiations/discussions are ongoing to this matter for the reasons you indicated. However, the activism of Russia and may I say, other East-leaning proxies of Russia is simply a geo-political game between major powers. The US interestingly has similar ambitions with its allies and thus the entire world stage is really a political problem. Even in the definition of terms, there is a geo-political undertone...

Source author: Bennette Thomas thomasb@dominica.gov.dm