<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi<div><br></div><div>Maybe this is something on which NCSG, ALAC, and others in ICANNland should weigh in on, e.g. with a letter to Leahy? It would certainly seem to fall within our bailiwick...</div><div><br></div><div>Have yet to hear anything from the contracted parties, will be interesting to see how they play it…</div><div><br></div><div>Bill<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">William Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch">william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">September 30, 2010 9:54:54 AM GMT+02:00<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <<a href="mailto:wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de">wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>COICA</b><br></span></div><br><div>Hi<br><br>COICA is an intergalactically horrible idea that seems designed to greatly escalate concerns about unilateralism vis. CIR. As CDT's letter <a href="http://cdt.org/files/pdfs/Leahy_bill_memo.pdf">http://cdt.org/files/pdfs/Leahy_bill_memo.pdf</a> notes,<br><br>"S. 3804 significantly aggravates the situation by suggesting to the world that the U.S. does intend to use the historic nature of the DNS (with American companies administering “.com” and other leading top-level domains) to impose American law on the global Internet. Under the bill, the U.S. asserts that it can take down websites created and operated anywhere in the world, simply based on the fact that the websites use the most popular global top-level domain (.com). This type of assertion of global control is the kind of U.S. exercise of power about which other countries of the world have worried – and about which U.S. foreign policy has sought to reassure the world. Thus S. 3804 directly harms the United Statesʼ Internet governance agenda pursued through diplomatic channels over the past ten years."<br><br>A bit astonishing and sad that the bill was introduced by Patrick Leahy, who for many years has been a champion of online civil liberties and partner of US public interest groups on digital matters. But the IPR lobby is a powerful beast that apparently must be placated…Still, I'd like to think he's going through the motions here and knows this should fail.<br><br>Bill<br><br><br>On Sep 30, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/open-letter">http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/open-letter</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">____________________________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To be removed from the list, send any message to:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="mailto:governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org">governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">For all list information and functions, see:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance">http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Translate this email: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a><br></blockquote><br>***********************************************************<br>William J. 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