[governance] today's Wash Post editorial

[McTim]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> Koven Ronald <kovenronald at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> In what, precisely, does the "yoke of US's oversight" consist ? May
>> we have concrete examples, please, of the exercise of this yoke ?
>
> One example is the Rojadirecta case, in which U.S. Immigration and
> Customs Enforcement (ICE) took down, by means of a simple warrant
> (obtained domestically within the U.S. without any need to involve
> Spanish authorities), a Spanish website directed at customers in Spain
> even though that website had been judged, by Spanish courts, to be
> legal according to Spanish law.

You are conflating 2 entirely different things.

One is the role that NTIA has in re: rootzone authorisation.

The other has nothing to do with ICANN.

-- 
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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