New Rights Protections To .net

[millsworks <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To Whom It May Concern,

It has come to my attention through articles posted by Domain Name  
Wire and BoingBoing -
http://domainnamewire.com/2011/05/10/urgent-now-intellectual-property-group-wants-to-apply-new-rights-protections-to-net/

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/10/urgent-intellectual.html

- that the Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) is seeking to  
"retroactively apply new and untested rights protections to .net - one  
of the original top level domain names" - making the domains subject  
to suspension on copyright complaints and that anonymous and privacy- 
shielded .net domains should be abolished.
I cannot begin to describe how backwards and anti-internet and anti- 
democratic such a proposal is.  To ask Versign, in their role managing  
the .net top-level domain, to act as private copyright cops is  
absurd.  To insist that domains be suspended merely upon a "complaint"  
of copyright is not only equally absurd it flies in the face of  
constitutional law.  It is apparent that a lobby of multi-national  
media corporations are attempting to further their own limited goals  
at the expense of rational copyright reform, freedom of speech and the  
rule of law.  This must not be allowed to happen.
Myself and many others trust that ICANN will not allow these  
provisions to be put into effect and will instead state plainly and  
publicly that such provisions are unwarranted intrusion upon the  
freedoms of individuals, companies and countries who live and work  
within this extension of our collective nervous system known as The  
Internet.  In short - tell the IPC to take a hike.  Do the right thing.
Thank you.

Robert Mills
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