[governance] Re: Why the unilateral US control over generic TLD is dangerous

[parminder]

McTim wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
> <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Check out the second paragraph of the article in this link:
>> http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2011/02/01/us-seizes-domain-spainbased-sports-linking-site-rojadirecta
>>     
>
> I am surprised that PIR caved in so quickly...Baptism by fire for
> Brian Cute. If, as it seems regitries/registrars are going to abide by
> these seizure orders, it seems they would abide by them if they had HQ
> in any country.
>
> What is the solution then? A treaty is not going to fly, no country is
> going to give up their sovereignty over ccTLDs or com0panies
> (registries/registrars) that run in their country.
>   
If we start from that baseline there cannot be any real global 
governance. However if we all recognise that a global Internet cannot be 
run without considerable amount of global governance it may help to note 
how much sovereignty have country governments  given up and keep giving  
up in the area of global trade and IP agreements, and also under climate 
change etc treaties. They will have to give it up to some good extent in 
IG as well, but the route to it has to be explored and planned well. 
That is what is needed to be primarily tried through various global IG 
processes. This is an imperative we must all understand and the global 
IG civil society has to be on the forefront of this exploration without 
resorting to knee jerk we-cant-live-with-govs-in-global IG space 
reactions. parminder



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