[Chapter-delegates] PIR and wikileaks.ORG

[Sivasubramanian M]

There is an interesting thread in www-tag in this context. It is about
extending "http to allow it to gracefully switch to p2p under stress"

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2010Dec/0006.html

In one of the messages on this thead an Internet Draft is cited:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bryan-metalinkhttp

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On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Patrick Vande Walle
<patrick at vande-walle.eu>wrote:

>
>
> "Jon Zittrain" <zittrain at cyber.law.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> >If I'm keeping the examples straight, that's where the USG "seized"
> >the domain name, e.g.
> ><http://mashable.com/2010/11/26/torrent-finder/>.  I think GoDaddy
> >the registrar has denied any involvement, which makes the Verisign
> >registry the only other party (aside from torrent-finder itself) able
> >to point the DNS servers to "seizedservers.com"!
> >
>
> Indeed. The place of incorporation of gTLD registries make them vulnerable
> to these types of requests. In the case of PIR, the ISOC board should ask
> themselves if moving PIR abroad might not be in the best interest of the
> Internet community.
>
> Best regards,
> Cordialement,
>
> Patrick Vande Walle
> --
> Sent from a mobile device. Apologies for the typos and the brevity.
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