[Chapter-delegates] The Internet Society on the Wikileaks issue

[Borka]

Hello Michael,
Thank you for thenice explanation of the issue. Thank you for your stand 
points which I support.
We need as a community to act the global free flow of information to 
continue.
In that regards, the moving
of WikiLeaks to some CC domain may help at the moment. In Slovenia three 
days ago wikileaks.si
start to live and the owners were on the most popular TV show with the 
same message:
we support the free flow of information and that is why we have set up 
and registered wikileaks.si.

However, the pressure of governments to enable DNS intervention at the gates
of ICANN is reality. I still believe that not all world governments will 
really adopt the
same attitudes as we are witnessing today with the attitude
towards wikileaks.org domain name.

With regards,

Borka
ISOC Slovenia

S, Michiel Leenaars piše:
> Hello Christian,
>
> a reasonable assumption would be that the .org domain name is far more
> prone to be seized than a .ch-domain name - at which point no DNS
> hosting provider could help them. PIR after all is legally based in the
> USA. The chance is quite real that the United States government would at
> some point seek to seize the name, like it has done early last week for
> mere torrent hosts:
>
> http://torrentfreak.com/us-government-responds-to-domain-seizures-ignores-the-big-question-101129 )
>
> (these were all .net and .com, with the same USA-based company Verisign
> as the registry). Moving Wikileaks to a Swiss domain name makes taking
> down that new domain name at that level more difficult - I'm assuming
> that seizing it would involve the government of Switzerland, and
> possibly would have to involve an entire restructuring of the
> relationship between SWITCH and the Swiss government. And since SWITCH
> is doing an excellent job as is, and the Swiss government is rather
> independent, that would take a lot of effort - beyond the scope of this
> specific case, I would hope.
>
> CDL>  As a separate item ISOC might well find this is a good time to
> CDL>  start a consultation with members on the growing issue of DNS
> CDL>  interventions. These could become destabilising.
>
> I second that. Certainly governments and law enforcement agencies seem
> to be at the gates of ICANN to make DNS intervention across their own
> judicial system easier. A case like this is a strong reminder of certain
> risks for the global free flow of information that would involve.
>
> Kind regards,
> Michiel Leenaars
> Directeur
>
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