[172626] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Owning a name
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Collin Anderson)
Fri Jun 27 00:46:18 2014
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From: Collin Anderson <collin@averysmallbird.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:40:38 -0700
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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It might also interest the list that every couple of years ICANN actually
has to apply to the Department of Treasury's OFAC in order to obtain a
license to do business with Iranian parties.
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Collin Anderson <collin@averysmallbird.com=
>
wrote:
> As best as I and others have been able to discern, the order in question
> is a subpoena to ICANN pertaining to contracts, financial information and
> communications with the Iranian government over their names and addresses=
.
> The claims of granted control appear to be inaccurate -- all of the
> reporting on the matter have been childish to the extent of saying Dot-Ir=
an
> (=E2=80=8F.=D8=A7=DB=8C=D8=B1=D8=A7=D9=86) is in Arabic. The next step wo=
uld be for ICANN to challenge the
> request, and one might expect that communities such as this one would hav=
e
> an opportunity to amicus along the way.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 26, 2014, at 9:13 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On Jun 27, 2014, at 00:07 , Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote=
:
>> >
>> >>
>> http://joshuapundit.blogspot.com/2014/06/court-ruling-israeli-and-us-ter=
rorism.html
>> >>
>> >> Have not seen much discussion about this.
>> >
>> > That would be a horrifically bad precedent to set. I hope this insanit=
y
>> stops before it get started.
>>
>> Anyone have a link to the actual ruling? This URL is to a very
>> positionally-specific interpretation of events, which is fairly
>> disconnected from reality on the ICANN side=E2=80=A6 It=E2=80=99s quite=
possible it=E2=80=99s an
>> equally clueless interpretation of the court decision. In any event, ev=
en
>> if the court was as clueless as this implies, it won=E2=80=99t go anywhe=
re.
>>
>> -Bill
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
> --
> *Collin David Anderson*
> averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C.
>
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*Collin David Anderson*
averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C.
