[governance] [liberationtech] Chinese preparing for a "Autonomous Internet" ?

[Louis Pouzin (well)]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:55 PM, David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:

Parminder,
>
> [snip]
>


> And yet, despite those sanctions being in place long before the DNS (or
> the Internet existed), root zone changes for Cuba have not gone
> unprocessed. Nor have root zone changes for North Korea. Or Sudan. Or
> Libya. Or Iran. Or Syria. Or Iraq. Etc.
>
> Here is a case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.iq

http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/l-irak-recupere-son-nom-de-domaine-iq-39251115.htm&ei=MJLnT4GlJsLJtAaBoPWzAQ&usg=AFQjCNE0TtX4nCSYC27pefzhQD-smYtflg

English translation:

« Iraq gets back its domain name .Iq

by the editor, ZDNet France. Published Monday, August 8, 2005
Tags: Internet, Politics, Domain Names,

- ICANN has just returned to Iraq the management of its domain name - the
".Iq". The international body responsible for regulating the domain name
system (DNS) has entrusted the task to the National Iraqi Communications
and Media Commission (NCMC).

The [Irak] government organization claimed .Iq for more than a year, but
Icann believed the country too unstable to do it. It validated the request
at a recent meeting, saying "acting in the best interest of local and
global Internet communities."

Since 1997 .Iq belonged to the Texas company InfoCom, which was responsible
for its management until 2002. Date on which ICANN suspended the domain
name, after several company executives were suspected of having links with
Hamas, considered a terrorist organization by U.S. authorities.

The management change will allow the Iraqi government to standardize its
e-mail and web addresses. »

Louis
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