[governance] [govenance] The domain name racket goes on

[parminder]

On Thursday 18 September 2014 07:47 PM, McTim wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:03 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net 
> <mailto:parminder at itforchange.net>> wrote:
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> Without the need to develop policy using many thousands of people 
> around the world as the policy making community,
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>     Yes, after such intense consultations, they decide that the global
>     public is ok with giving .health to a US organisation that
>     promotes the interests of big pharma against cheap generic drugs,
>     which is a matter of life and death to so many poor people
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> If only facts didn't get in the way of your arguments!
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> the fact is that neither ICANN as an entity nor as a policy community 
> "decided" to give .health to these folks:
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> http://www.dothealthgtld.com/aboutus.html
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> they applied for it, and received it according to the Applicant 
> Guidebook (which was developed by the policy community, which you 
> refuse to be a part of).
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> Another fact is there is ZERO big pharma support to .health, but 
> really, carry on with your counter-factual-ism, you will always find 
> takers here it seems!


See http://infojustice.org/archives/31846  about the Center for Safe 
Internet Pharmacies- a major backer of .health and its relationship with 
big pharma.

And you of course know that GAC as well as WHO opposed delegation of dot 
health. In this case even the independent Expert opposed it. Also ALAC 
opposed it.

As to what relationship The Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies has with 
the Intellectual Property establishment of the US, and how safe drug 
trade is very often just a code word for US Intellectual Property law 
complaint global drug trade , see 
http://safeonlinerx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ASOP-Response-to-IPEC.pdf 
, especially the passage

We urge IPEC to maintain consistent dialogue with CSIP and other 
Internet commerce companies to:


Reiterate the Administration's commitment to combating illegal online 
drug sellers and encouraging voluntary action from private sector 
stakeholders consistent with IPEC's 2010 Annual Report (2010 U.S. 
Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Annual Report on 
Intellectual Property Enforcement pg. 28)

(quote ends)

There are endless such reports and analyses on the Internet. Dot health 
is going to be policed as per US drugs law and this clearly means that 
generic drug traders should avoid this gltd, which such a outrage, 
clearly US calls the shots with eh global DNS system and this is not at 
all acceptable.

A paper analysing the issue is at

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3961808/

parminder

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>     , is likely to auction .book to Amazon as a closed generic, so
>     that Amazon holds the rights to what can be called as a digital
>     book, and so many other monstrosities...
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>>     they could do their job using far fewer resources.
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>>     This spending is a feature, not a bug. It is a very useful
>>     feature for CS folks who rely on the no-strings attached travel
>>     funding to participate in person.
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>     No-strings!! Thats the joke here...
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>     parminder
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>>     --
>>     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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> -- 
> Cheers,
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> 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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