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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thanks Bill and please add me on your list. I have written about
COICA and the bill is highly problematic. My understanding was that the bill
might have been suspended for the time, but next time around it will be rushed
through. IP owners really want this and they will do whatever they can to proceed
with it. So, let’s all put our heads together and show why this bill is again
highly problematic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>KK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";
color:#1F497D'>Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Law Lecturer,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Director of Postgraduate Instructional Courses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Director of LLM Information Technology and Telecommunications
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color:#1F497D'>University of Strathclyde,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>tel: +44 (0)141 548 4306<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";
color:#1F497D'>http://www.routledgemedia.com/books/The-Current-State-of-Domain-Name-Regulation-isbn9780415477765</span><span
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color:#1F497D'>Website: www.komaitis.org</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> NCSG-NCUC
[mailto:NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brenden Kuerbis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 03, 2010 2:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: COICA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks Bill, I'd like to help on this. And I agree
working with ALAC, and particularly Marc Rotenburg, would be a good idea.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:11 AM, William Drake <<a
href="mailto:william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch">william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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,<o:p></o:p></p>
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href="http://domainincite.com/icann-will-not-attend-white-house-drugs-meeting/"
target="_blank">http://domainincite.com/icann-will-not-attend-white-house-drugs-meeting/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Bill<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Oct 2, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Rafik Dammak wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>hi Bill,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>for contracted parties, they have pressure from US gov and
even had meeting at White house this week I think<o:p></o:p></p>
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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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Rafik<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>2010/9/30 William Drake <<a
href="mailto:william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch" target="_blank">william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Have yet to hear anything from the contracted parties, will
be interesting to see how they play it…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Bill<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Begin forwarded message:<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>William
Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch" target="_blank">william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Date:
</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>September
30, 2010 9:54:54 AM GMT+02:00</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><a
href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>,
"Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <<a
href="mailto:wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de" target="_blank">wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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COICA</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi<br>
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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" target="_blank">http://cdt.org/files/pdfs/Leahy_bill_memo.pdf</a>
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>
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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>
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Bill<br>
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