[governance] today's Wash Post editorial

[McTim]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>> > McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> 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!!
>
> That's exactly the point.
>
> In the Rojadirecta case, the US government wanted to take action
> against a Spanish company that was acting in a way that was legal in
> Spain. But rojadirecta.com needs entries in a dns zone (specifically,
> the .com zone) maintained by a US company (Verisign). So the US
> government served Verisign with a warrant that had the effect of
> disabling rojadirecta.com.

They couldn't possibly accede to such a hypothetical warrant, as MM
pointed out, rootzone changes involve 3 parties.  All change requests
start at IANA, neither the NTIA nor VRSN can initiate such a change.


>
> In the hypothetical, a gtld registry, say for .gratis

I chose .nz (because of the mega website), which is NOT hypothetical,
and .nz has NOT been removed from the root.  A TLD is a TLD is a TLD.
ICE or any other clueless agency is not going to split hairs over if a
TLD is a ccTLD or not.  If they haven't gone after .nz, they won't be
going after one that does not yet exist.

, is outside the
> US, operating legally under the rules of the country where it is
> based, but the US government comes to the conclusion that the business
> of that gtld registry consists to a significant part in benefiting from
> infringements on "intellectual property rights" of US corporations. In
> that kind of situation, I'd definitely expect the US government to at
> least consider serving a warrant intended to disable .gratis to whoever
> in their view is in charge of maintaining the root zone!
>
> As the number of gtlds will be increasing dramatically, maintenance of
> the root zone will become much more like operating a registry than it
> used to be.

No, it will be exactly the same as it is currently.  A registry is a
registry, no matter if it has a zonefile with 300 entries or 3000
entries.


-- 
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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