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Just a note, Bill and All, not to wait until December. This bill
will be up in the "lame duck" session, the approximately one month
from mid-November until mid-December when Congress returns to
session with its old members. For those not returning, including
bill sponsors, there is nothing to lose by passing legislation in
the lame duck period. We are told that this bill will be back during
that time, probably early on.<br>
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EFF, CDT, Public Knowledge are all involved --- and have posted
their letters to Congress. I am sure they would welcome additional
support. <br>
Best,<br>
Kathy<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks Bill, I'd like to help on this. And I agree working with
ALAC, and particularly Marc Rotenburg, would be a good idea.
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<div>Thanks Kathy and Rafik for the updates. Good to know
the bill won't be taken up until after the midterm
elections, but troubling that the WH is nevertheless
pushing forward with the notion of using the DNS to
censor at the behest of intellectual property interests.
At least ICANN had the good sense not to get involved
in the latter discussion,</div>
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<div>When the Senate swings back to consider COICA, I
would still favor us writing a letter, perhaps in
conjunction with ALAC. I'd be happy to work on a
draft, perhaps after Cartagena and before the holiday
season. If anyone would be interested in collaborating
on this just send me a note for future reference.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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<div>Bill</div>
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<div>On Oct 2, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Rafik Dammak
wrote:</div>
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<div>for contracted parties, they have
pressure from US gov and even had meeting at
White house this week I think</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100929/20293711230/even-without-coica-white-house-asking-registrars-to-voluntarily-censor-infringing-sites.shtml"
target="_blank">http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100929/20293711230/even-without-coica-white-house-asking-registrars-to-voluntarily-censor-infringing-sites.shtml</a></div>
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<div>Regards</div>
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<div>Rafik</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/30 William
Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div style="word-wrap: break-word;">Hi
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<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>
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<div>Have yet to hear anything from
the contracted parties, will be
interesting to see how they play it…</div>
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<div>Bill<br>
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<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
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notes,<br>
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"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>
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