Re: [soac-mapo] Parting shots from the US government

[Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have seen this as a really good motivation for other countries to have local 
registries and registrars so that people can avoid the US and other countries 
who are behind Information curtains. 

And perhaps this will become a motivation for countries to establish themselves 
as freedom of information havens.  Who knows, some the major US registries 
might even think of relocating. Not likely, but time for people to start 
appealing for them to do so.

a.



On 29 Sep 2010, at 12:16, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Though our work is largely done here, I thought participants might want a 
> look at this article about American plans to legislate its own domain-level 
> blocking system.
> 
> http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5334/135/
> 
> Because of the location of so many gTLD operators within the US, this has 
> serious implications beyond its borders.
> 
> Maybe many of you already know about this, but I'm also sure than many people 
> don't. It's just another example of how any hopes within ICANN that our 
> internal efforts would curtail country-level blocking are simply naiive.
> 
> - Evan
>