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

[Adam Peake]

My bad memory -- I thought the earlier seizures had been made via the 
registrars, not registries. Were a number of Cuban businesses caught 
via their registrars, not the more recent ICE cases, doesn't matter 
this is bad.  And I was wrong.

Makes the process Avri and others are involved with find ways to 
support developing country applicants for new gTLDs even more 
important: diversity in location of administration is clearly 
essential.

Would be helpful if members of PIR's Advisory Council 
<http://www.pir.org/about/council> active in the IGC (Khaled, Milton) 
could find out what's going on.  Suggest the Advisory Council 
recommend to PIR that it move its registered office to Geneva, with 
ISOC.  And it would be good to get a reaction from ISOC.  When is the 
re-bid for the .NET and .ORG contract coming up, let's make it an 
issue.

Perhaps Bill would like to see what the GNSO Council thinks and what 
amendments necessary the new TLD process to try and protect against 
similar actions by governments in the future. And we all have GAC 
representatives, write to them.  There's a meeting of GAC and Board 
coming up on new TLDs, this is an issue very relevant to that 
process.  Ask our GAC representatives to raise it. Who can contact 
Spain?

Adam

(BTW  - as we're all subscribed to the list could we not cc everyone 
on every reply, just the list will do.)



>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.
>
>--
>Cheers,
>
>McTim
>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
>route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>____________________________________________________________
>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>      governance at lists.cpsr.org
>To be removed from the list, visit:
>      http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing
>
>For all other list information and functions, see:
>      http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance
>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
>      http://www.igcaucus.org/
>
>Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t

____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.cpsr.org
To be removed from the list, visit:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing

For all other list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance
To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/

Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t