[governance] today's Wash Post editorial

[McTim]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > warrant. The scenario is this: "ICE decides that one foreign TLD
>> > registrar
>>
>> I think you mean "registry"  here.
> Yes.
>>  is in the business of directing
>> > users to websites violating the US understanding of what copyright
>> > law should say, and further decides to treat that TLD registrar
>> > analogously to how Rojadirecta was treated". I don't pretend to know
>> > whether ICE would seek to serve the warrant to be served to ICANN
>> > (as IANA operator) or Verisign (as root zone maintainer)
>>
>> neither to the IANA operator or rootzone maintainer.
>>
>> As they did in the rojadirecta case, they would go to the registry
> If the registry is outside the US, like Rojadirecta was, how would they
> "go to the registry"?


the registries were in the U.S. in the rojadirecta case!!


>
>> So you are hypothesizing that if for example ICE took exception to
>> mega.nz (or mega.co.nz), they would go to ICANN or VRSN to take .nz
>> from the root?
>
> No... that's totally unplausible


no more implausible than your hypothetical.

Speculating further on either doesn't seem to be helpful at this point.


-- 
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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