[governance] Solidarity with RDS Honduras

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Thanks for your thoughts, McTim. Indeed, a GAC statement would be
fundamental. You are right, the servers are outside of the country, but
the government could go really far if ICANN does not take a stand. I am
mostly worried about RDS-HN itself -- its work goes well beyond managing
the .hn domain, and they are in an extremely vulnerable situation.

[] fraterno

--c.a.

McTim wrote:
> Hi Carlos,
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
>
>> Dear people,
>>
>>
> <SNIP>
>
>> It is obvious a clear and urgent position from ICANN against this
>> arbitrary seizure is needed.
>>
>>
> That would be useful indeed.
>
> Even better if the GAC were to issue a statement condemning this attempted
> seizure.
>
> This is interesting timing coming the day before the end of the JPA.
>
> In any case, as you can see here:
> http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/hn.html  the DNS servers aren't under
> the control of the honduran gov't, so they clearly haven't thought this
> through.
>
> Does this mean that all Local Internet Registries (ISPs with IP address
> allocations from LACNIC) will also be seized?
>
> it's a disturbing development indeed!
>
>

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Carlos A. Afonso
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