Hi Michael,
The more interesting issue and question is whether Twomey
will act as a global cats paw for the sponsoring minister
behind all this - who is also Twomey's mentor and sponsor.
The GAC's purpose is to make findings on the legal obligations
of ICANN - which is effectively obligated to honor those findings.
One wonders how long it will take GAC to recommend that all DNS
registrants be subject to a requirement to honor a law such
as the Aussie's have adopted as condition of registering a
domain name. Since the GAC's membership is drawn from the
more rigid, controlling ministries and agencies in every country,
they can do a lot in their secret meetings, and just promulgate
it.
--tony
