[governance] People's Daily of China: US must hand over Internet control to the world

[David Conrad]

Hi,

Adam is correct. 

As mentioned previously, .IQ was dysfunctional and remained so until a redelegation was done in 2005.  The USG did not ask ICANN to "terminate services" to .IQ. The folks who ran the TLD were arrested (in Texas, US I believe) and put into jail for violating US law (not a lawyer and don't know the details so won't argue whether that arrest was appropriate), but this is unrelated to ICANN.

Regards,
-drc

On Aug 21, 2012, at 7:06 AM, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:

> Norbert, hi.
> 
> Please read the IANA report you give a link to. For example "The .IQ
> ccTLD was never active."
> 
> It was re delegated in 2005.  The news article claims "During the Iraq
> War, the U.S. government in 2003 asked ICANN to terminate services
> relating to Iraq’s top-level domain name “.iq” "  The timing's wrong.
> And at the time we were in the middle of WSIS, we were developing the
> civil society position (still stands I hope) against unilateral
> control of the root. At the time a lot of people were following this.
> 
> It seems the article's wrong. No websites harmed, etc.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>> Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
>>> I don't think ICANN/IANA did anything. The ccTLD was already a mess
>>> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/04/09/iraq_its_domain/>
>> 
>> I think it is clear that IANA did something: The ccTLD was redelegated.
>> http://www.iana.org/reports/2005/iq-report-05aug2005.pdf
>> 
>> The question is whether the implied accusation holds water that .iq
>> websites were harmed by the concerned actions of the US government (in
>> arresting the person in charge of the TLD without arranging for
>> continuity of the TLD) and IANA (in redelegating the TLD).
>> 
>> And I think that this question boils down to whether there were
>> actually any .iq websites at the time when the ccTLD operator was
>> arrested.
>> 
>> Greetings,
>> Norbert
>> 
>>> 
>>> Adam
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>>>> Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> A shot across the bow from China's government mouthpiece...
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7915248.html
>>>>> (People's Daily Online <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/>
>>>>> ) 11:10, August 18, 2012
>>>>> <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7915248.html#>
>>>>>  <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7915248.html#>
>>>>> 
>>>>>> During the Iraq War, the U.S. government in 2003 asked ICANN to
>>>>>> terminate services relating to Iraq’s top-level domain name “.iq”
>>>>>> and then all websites with the domainname “.iq” disappeared
>>>>>> overnight.
>>>> 
>>>> Did any such websites exist at the time of the redelegation?
>>>> 
>>>> Greetings,
>>>> Norbert
>>>> 
>>>> 
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