<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Parminder</b> <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Riaz<br><br>> The Treasury states that "except for information or informational<br>> materials and donated articles intended to relieve human suffering, such<br>> as food, clothing and medicine, and the licensed export of agricultural
<br>> commodities. no goods, technology, or services may be exported from the<br>> United States to Sudan".<br>><br><br>Wonder if it means that, legally, ICANN cant export its services to<br>Sudan....</blockquote>
<div><br><br>It might, if ICANN "exported services", but since they don't, it's moot.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
>the US Treasury has apparently banned<br>> access to images from Google Earth in Sudan as part of its ongoing<br>> export controls and economic sanctions against the country.<br><br><br>Google is now almost as universal and monopolistic an element of Internet's
<br>architecture as ICANN. </blockquote><div><br>Google provides services that run on the architecture, it's not the architecture itself.<br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Its control by US government is a matter of great<br>concern. The problem is that other countries can only control/ regulate<br>google at and within their digital gates (as china does), i.e. if they can<br>afford good gates, but US can do it for other countries as well.
</blockquote><div><br>and fair play to them. Are you suggesting that the Internet trumps sovereignty?<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
And here we are still arguing whether there is any need at all for globally<br>acceptable Internet policies...</blockquote><div><br><br>No, we are arguing about what is subject to those policies. There are already global policies in place, and processes to determine same.
<br><br><br></div></div>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>$ whois -h <a href="http://whois.afrinic.net">whois.afrinic.net</a> mctim<br>