See https://i4ada.org for additional information and videorecordings of the presentations held at the Hague Summit for Accountability in the Digital Age

1. www.pca-cpa.org
Summit on Accountability in the Digital Age: The State of Play
Helen Brown
PCA Legal Counsel
6 November 2019

2. The Permanent Court of Arbitration
• Intergovernmental
organisation that provides
dispute resolution services
to the international
community
• Forms of dispute
resolution:
– Arbitration
– Conciliation
– Mediation
– Litigation
• Similar to court process:
– Adversarial
– Third party decision-maker
– Binding decision
• Unique aspects:
– Consent of both Parties
required
– Flexible:
• Location
• Language
• Law

3. Arbitration in the Digital Age: ICANN
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Graphic from: cloudflare.com/learning/dns/glossary/what-is-a-domain-name-registrar/

4. ICANN Dispute Resolution
• ICANN has monopoly over
domain name issues
• Has a “Uniform Domain-
Name Dispute-Resolution
Policy”:
– Requires domain-name
disputes to be resolved
through arbitration
• Example:
“Camelicious.com”
(EICMP v. Wernery)

5. Accountability and Access to Justice
• Access to Justice
• To achieve proper
accountability we must
consider all kinds of disputes
• ICANN example
demonstrates how older
procedures can be repurposed
for the Digital Age