<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dominique,<div><br><div><div>On Jun 25, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Dominique Lacroix wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 25/06/12 19:59, David Conrad a
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<pre wrap="">Out of curiosity, why do you believe ICANN (or the USG) "suspended" the .iq domain? My understanding (again, before my time at ICANN so I may be misinformed) was that the folks Postel delegated the domain to didn't do anything with it and got in trouble for violating US law when living in the US.</pre>
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<font size="+2"><small><small>Here we are!</small></small><small><small>
Elashi "<i>violated the US law</i>". </small></small></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">As if US law was the world law!</span></div></blockquote><br><div><div><div><div><div></div></div></div></div></div><div>They were living in the US (Texas, as I understand it). I'm assuming they did not have diplomatic immunity. Are you saying non-diplomats living in the US are not subject to US law because they created a commercial company that happened to convince Jon Postel in 1997 that they could provide ccTLD services for Iraq?</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><font size="+2"><small><small>But </small></small></font><font size="+2"><small><small>Elashi
bross</small></small></font><font size="+2"><small><small>
could not have been convicted in a lot of "clean" countries
such as UK or Australia. </small></small></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not knowing the laws of either the UK or Australia, I can't comment.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><font size="+2"><small><small>
And even in the States, CS rights organizations fight for
Elashi freedom!<br></small></small></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you say so. Not being a lawyer, knowing the details of the case, or knowing CS rights organizations or the justification they're using to argue for the Elashi brothers, I can't comment.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><font size="+2"><small><small>
That's exactly why the root must not be ruled by only one
country.<br></small></small></font></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div>I'm sorry, not following the logic here. While I might agree that "oversight" (for some value of that variable) should not be performed by a single country, I don't see how the .IQ/Elashi brothers case argues for it. But I guess that's just me.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>-drc</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>