COICA
Kathy Kleiman
Kathy at KATHYKLEIMAN.COM
Sun Oct 3 18:06:44 CEST 2010
Just a note, Bill and All, not to wait until December. This bill will
be up in the "lame duck" session, the approximately one month from
mid-November until mid-December when Congress returns to session with
its old members. For those not returning, including bill sponsors, there
is nothing to lose by passing legislation in the lame duck period. We
are told that this bill will be back during that time, probably early on.
EFF, CDT, Public Knowledge are all involved --- and have posted their
letters to Congress. I am sure they would welcome additional support.
Best,
Kathy
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
> <mailto: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
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Rafik
>>
>> 2010/9/30 William Drake <william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch
>> <mailto: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
>>> <mailto:william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch>>
>>> *Date: *September 30, 2010 9:54:54 AM GMT+02:00
>>> *To: *governance at lists.cpsr.org
>>> <mailto:governance at lists.cpsr.org>, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
>>> <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de
>>> <mailto: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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