[governance] WCIT melt down

[Adam Peake]

Iran is a member of the GAC.

Trying to remember what happened in WSIS, but believe this issue
generally (access of Member States to international telecommunication
services) is something Cuba brings up in various forms on a regular
basis.

Toure's words of congratulation (and sound-bites for the media) we hollow.

Adam




On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:02 AM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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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>> 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?
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> --
> 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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