[governance] Re: "[...] to seize Iran's Internet licenses & domain name assets"

Louis Pouzin (well) pouzin at well.com
Sat Jun 28 11:25:15 EDT 2014


Most judgments are open to interpretations, a cornucopia for lawyers. .IR
could be seized, in theory, by an order to Verisign channeled through FBI
or DOC. It would harm the US more than Iran due to loss of trust, and would
spur the development of multiple roots.
 .
Louis
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On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> Am Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:18:07 +0200
> schrieb Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at internatif.org>:
>
> > There have been, apparently, a judgment (transferring the .ir, no
> > less...), in the USA:
> >
> >
> http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-us-terror-victims-now-own-irans-internet/
>
> Is the judgment itself available online?
>
> I find the article not overly illuminating, it IMO seems to be based to
> a too large extent on speculations of people who evidently don't know
> what they're talking about in relation to the Internet. Not that the
> judgment itself is necessarily better in that regard, but court
> judgments are a serious matter regardless of the correctness of the
> underlying assumptions.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
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