Re: [ga] censorship among root servers

[Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with you here Hugh. This is the most serious of issues. A national
security issue. Notice Rod Beckstrom is still silent on the issues.

I was even moved to write a short note to President Obama. I do not feel
ICANN has managed this well. http://bit.ly/dkp1Kd

regards
joe baptista


On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Andrew,
>
> I understand your comment. But I do not see why it must be a past moment.
> The issue is still quite ripe and will come in the future.
>
> Please suggest such a statement and clearly *subjectline* it.
>
>
> --- On *Sun, 3/28/10, Andrew McMeikan <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Andrew McMeikan <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [ga] censorship among root servers
> To:
> Cc: "ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 9:29 PM
>
>
>
> If I start to comment on the general politics of censorship then we
> are distracted from what we should be focused on.  Good or bad
> politically it is bad in root DNS full stop.
>
> It looks like the current issue has been resolved
>
> http://www.itworld.com/networking/102576/after-dns-problem-chinese-root-server-shut-down
> for now.
>
> I am disappointed at the level of bickering to what could have been
> a simple statement from this body.
>
>     cya,    Andrew...
>
> Hugh Dierker wrote:
> > Andy,
> >
> > Is it possible that this censorship and suppression of the people is a
> > good thing for the rest of us?
> >
>
>
>