COICA

[Brenden Kuerbis]

Thanks Bill, I'd like to help on this.  And I agree working with ALAC, and
particularly Marc Rotenburg, would be a good idea.

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:11 AM, William Drake <
william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch> wrote:

> Hi
>
> 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,
> http://domainincite.com/icann-will-not-attend-white-house-drugs-meeting/
>
> 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.
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
> On Oct 2, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Rafik Dammak wrote:
>
> hi Bill,
>
> for contracted parties, they have pressure from US gov and even had meeting
> at White house this week I think
>
> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100929/20293711230/even-without-coica-white-house-asking-registrars-to-voluntarily-censor-infringing-sites.shtml
>
>
> <http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100929/20293711230/even-without-coica-white-house-asking-registrars-to-voluntarily-censor-infringing-sites.shtml>
> Regards
>
> Rafik
>
> 2010/9/30 William Drake <william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch>
>
>> Hi
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> Have yet to hear anything from the contracted parties, will be interesting
>> to see how they play it…
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> *From: *William Drake <william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch>
>> *Date: *September 30, 2010 9:54:54 AM GMT+02:00
>> *To: *governance at lists.cpsr.org, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <
>> wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de>
>> *Subject: **COICA*
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> COICA is an intergalactically horrible idea that seems designed to greatly
>> escalate concerns about unilateralism vis. CIR.  As CDT's letter
>> http://cdt.org/files/pdfs/Leahy_bill_memo.pdf notes,
>>
>> "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."
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> On Sep 30, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote:
>>
>>
>> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/open-letter
>>
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