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Re: [ga] politicisation of the internet
- To: Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [ga] politicisation of the internet
- From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:05:59 -0800 (PST)
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5. Texas-based InfoCom was the sponsoring
organization of the .iq ccTLD. The US Government
acted to arrest its chief executive on
terrorist-related charges effectively knocking out
Iraq's namespace for the last three years. The MOU
calls upon ICANN for the sake of stability to take
over a registry's operations in the event of a
financial failure or other emergency. It didn't
happen. Draw your own conclusion as to the effects of
U.S. influence...
--- Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Hugh Dierker wrote:
>
> > I would appreciate one smart individual showing me
> five incidents where
> > the USA Gov. interfered with an ICANN contract and
> or policy.
>
> You mean things apart from the Sword of Damacleas
> effect of simply holding
> the authority over ICANN?
>
> A few items immediately leap out:
>
> 1. Redelegation of .us
> 2. Interference with .xxx decision
> 3. Acceptance of ICANN's breach of faith with the
> internet community when
> ICANN "reformed" itself and eliminated public
> participation. (This is
> less interference and more abandonment of the
> government's side of
> its agreeements.)
> 4. The recent resolution in Congress to keep ICANN
> and the control of the
> net under the US umbrella.
> 5. Is an exercise left to the reader.
>
>
> --karl--
>
>
>
>
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