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[Alex Gakuru]

they approved it yesterday,

"The US Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a controversial
bill<http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/11/senate-judiciary-backs-online.php>that
would give the authorities dramatic new copyright enforcement powers
allowing it to take down entire domains “dedicated to online piracy” rather
than just targeting files that actually infringe copyright law."
http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/111910_Judiciary_Committee_Approves_Online_Copyright_Enforcement_Bill

see also;

"CADNA now encourages the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN), the global organization that sets policy for the Internet's
naming and addressing system, to supplement the Senate's work by including
in its policies provisions that will similarly prevent infringement and
counterfeiting outside of the U.S.'s jurisdictional reach."

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cadna-commends-chairman-leahy-and-the-senate-judiciary-committee-for-passing-the-combating-online-infringements-and-counterfeits-act-out-of-committee-109242769.html

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > because of  ICANN's Culture of Secrecy, nothing has been said. We also
> > do not know why [ICANN] did it - maybe it just did not fit into anyone's
> > schedule.  So a discussion that brings out these issues and explores the
> > reasons why it might have made sense for them to have made the decision
> > they did, might also be useful.
> >
>
> I think Avri's comment above indicates why we SHOULD make a statement on
> this as NCSG or NCUC.
> First, it encourages and promotes support within the broader ICANN
> community. Second, if indeed ICANN's staff and Board refused to attend this
> thing for the wrong reasons, we push it in the right direction.
>
> This has been an interesting discussion regarding the status of NCSG as a
> "creature" of ICANN or as an independent civil society organization that can
> take positions. Obviously it kind of straddles the fence.
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