<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Nov 27, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:03 AM, parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<font face="sans-serif">Reading this news with some other recent ones -
like the case filed in a US court by the porn industry biggies against
ICANN regarding .xxx domain - makes it clear that we urgently need
suitable international legal mechanisms, and appropriate</font><font face="sans-serif"> means of</font><font face="sans-serif"> judicial
review, in this area. </font>De facto jurisdiction of the US law wont
do. parminder <br><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Are IP addresses property or public resources? </div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>ARIN holds that IP address space is not property but is managed as a </div><div>public resource. Address holders may have certain rights (such as the </div><div>right to be the registrant of the address block, the right to transfer the </div><div>registration, etc.) but these rights intersect with additional rights to the</div><div>the same address blocks which are held by the community (such as the </div><div>right to visibility into the public portion of registrations). It is the registry </div><div>policies (set by the community via open and transparent processes) that </div><div>governs the intersection and application of these rights.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding what it is needed with respect to law enforcement, I do believe </div><div>(personally; ARIN has not considered this matter) that there could be some </div><div>use for an appropriate framework for handling law enforcement requests for</div><div>transnational orders affecting the Internet. I'll note that such a framework</div><div>would facilitate each country adopting its own specific laws to implement </div><div>those aspects of the framework compatible with their worldview. I am much </div><div>less sanguine about the prospects for a common set of global mechanisms, </div><div>due to the difficulty in defining any mechanisms that operate across countries.</div><div><br></div><div>/John</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>