[governance] WCIT melt down

[McTim]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

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> *From:* McTim [mailto:dogwallah at gmail.com]
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> ****
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>    *Suppose that the US decided to deny access to the domain name root
> zone resolution to, say Iran (.ir), because of its bad HR record. *****
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>  How exactly would they do that?****
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> *[Milton L Mueller] They could apply the same sanctions to ICANN – which
> is in U.S. jurisdiction – that they apply to Oracle, MSFT, GoDaddy, etc. *
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> *They could decide that ICANN was providing “services” to the sanctioned
> country.*
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If so, there are still some root-ops who would not abide by those
sanctions, no?



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>    *Certainly Syria is a criminal regime. But do we want ICANN to be a
> neutral meeting ground for all parties or not?*****
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>  yes.  Who decides who gets in the GAC?  ****
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> *[Milton L Mueller] *
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> *[Milton L Mueller] ICANN bylaws.*
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so you are saying it's the Board?



-- 
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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