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

[parminder]

Adam Peake wrote:
> 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?

And by all logic, a pressing and important IGF plenary topic. IGC is 
already proposing a plenary on such cross border issues. I hope all 
constituencies agree that an IGF plenary must discuss this issue. Parminder

>
> 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
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