[governance] Solidarity with RDS Honduras

[Milton L Mueller]

Since many GAC members believe that governments should have a right to assert control over the ccTLD at will, I am not sure they are the best ones to take up this cause. 

However, I think this is a very important development and would favor having NCUC sign on to the LACTLD statement, or develop one of our own. 

--MM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Non-Commercial User Constituency [mailto:NCUC-
> DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Carlos A. Afonso
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:13 AM
> To: NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] [governance] Solidarity with RDS Honduras
> 
> 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!
> >
> >
> 
> --
> 
> Carlos A. Afonso
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