On 03/01/2018 10:54, Dave Burstein wrote:
...> ICANN probably would have no choice but to obey a court order to shut down
> connections to <random country>
ICANN has no control over network connections; that's in the realm of internet service providers and telecommunications carriers, most of which are outside US jurisdiction. All ICANN could conceivably do is remove a country code top-level domain from the root servers that ICANN controls. That is of course the motivation for most moves to bypass the ICANN root. It's also the reason that many people have been very concerned since 1998 that ICANN was created as a US corporation in the first place. If it had been created as an NGO in a neutral jurisidiction, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Regard
Brian