Solidarity with RDS Honduras -- .hn seized by government

[Poomjit Sirawongprasert]

Dear Carlos,

I have informed a group of my friends about this case and we are discussing
about this.

Moui
(Thailand)

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Poomjit Sirawongprasert
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:

> Dear people,
>
> I think we need to mobilize ASAP in favor of RDS Honduras. Anyone who
> knows the work of the organization since its foundation in 1994 will
> have no doubt in supporting them against yet another arbitrary measure
> by the current Honduran dictatorship.
>
> RDS is a pioneer in social networking and Internet services in Central
> America (especially oriented to civil society networks). I have worked
> personally with them in 2002 in a Sustainable Development Network
> (SDN/RDS) evaluation for UNDP, and can testify to the high quality and
> relevance of their work in leveraging ICTs for human development in the
> country.
>
> For more information (mostly in Spanish), please visit
> http://solidaridadrdshn.blogspot.com/
>
> For general information on RDS-HN: http://rds.hn
>
> Above all, please mobilize your organizations to participate in active
> solidarity actions with RDS-HN.
>
> It is obvious a clear and urgent position from ICANN against this
> arbitrary seizure is needed.
>
> Below is the full statemente by RDS-HN in English.
>
> fraternal regards
>
> --c.a.
>
> ==========================================================
> LACTLD Statement on ccTLD. HN situation
>
> To the international community
>
> By this note, we would like to inform the international community about
> the current situation in the ccTLD .HN, which is managed by RDS-HN,
> associated member of LACTLD , organization that informs us about this
> situation.
>
> The current Honduran government has informed RDS-HN that it must hand
> over the ccTLD operation due to Article 79B of the Reglament of the
> Telecommunications Act (of the year 2002). This rule says that "CONATEL
> controls the regulation and administration of the domains and IP
> directions within the national territory. CONATEL will be able to take
> the necessary measures so that the administration of domains and IP
> addresses can be executed through from other public or private
> institutions, for which agreements will be signed and the corresponding
> regulations will be issued."
>
> Last Friday, and based in the above-mentioned article, national
> authorities arrived at the ccTLD. hn office stating: "Until now, CONATEL
> has not signed any agreement with any public or private entity.
> Therefore it is necessary to order the institution, which has been
> managing and delegating domains. HN, to suspend the management
> immediately, given that it develops outside the provisions of Article
> 79B of the Reglament of the Framework Law for Telecommunications
> Sector". In the same way, they order ccTLD .HN "1. To immediately
> suspend all activities related to registration and delegation of new
> domain names under the domain .HN, and 2. To hand a list of domains .HN
> and records, that the institution have been conferred, to CONATEL."
>
> The Red de Desarrollo Sostenible - RDS (Sustainable Development Network)
> http://www.rds.org.hn maintains the operation of ccTLD. hn since April
> 1993, date when this organization received this delegation and, in July
> 2006, signed an Accountability Framework with ICANN
> (http://www.icann.org/en/cctlds/hn/hn-icann-af-20jul06.pdf), which
> explicitly recognizes that relationship and work. Furthermore, RDS is
> also a leading civil society organization that facilitates connectivity
> to Honduras as well as provides various tools and services to the
> community of Honduras and Central America and, for this reason, RDS is
> being recognized as a pioneer in the region.
>
> The management and operation of the DNS follow internationally accepted
> and recognized processes, primarily based on RFC 1591 . Because of the
> stability importance of the Internet global system and ccTLD work, RDS
> is due to its local and international community on the Internet.
>
> In addition, we indicate that the action that tries to carry out CONATEL
> is against of the constitutional guarantees and the guarantees of the
> Pact of San José de Costa Rica. Therefore, it violates the relationship
> that has been conducted peacefully and technically efficient and is
> based on existing contractual agreements and relationships.
>
> LACTLD expresses its strong concern regarding the events that have
> unfolded in the request made by the Government of Honduras to take in a
> sudden and abrupt way the operation .HN due to the fact that it will be
> detrimental to the users of domain name system in Honduras which
> primarily require stability for the adequate access of Internet resources.
>
> LACTLD is committed with its partners and members, and primarily seeks
> to maintain the stability of the Domain Name System for the correct
> running of the Internet. We hope that the wisdom will prevail between
> two sides in order to solve this delicate situation.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Council of LACTLD
> Latin American and Caribbean ccTLD Association
> http://www.lactld.org
>
> More Information: contacto at lactld.org, contacto at rds.org.hn
> More Information: http://solidaridadrdshn.blogspot.com/
>
> [1] ccTLD: country code top level domain
> [2] RDS-Hn: Red de Desarrollo Sostenible de Honduras (
> http://www.rds.org.hn)
> [3] LACTLD: Latin American and Caribbean ccTLD Association
> (http://www.lactld.org)
> [4] CONATEL: Telecomunication National Comission (
> http://www.conatel.gob.hn)
> [5] ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
> (http://www.icann.org)
> [6] RFC 1591: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1591.txt
>
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