[Chapter-delegates] English Wikipedia going dark tomorrow!

[Narelle Clark]

"Christian de Larrinaga" <cdel at firsthand.net> said:
> .cc is the ccTLD of the Cocos Islands an Australian dependency since the
> mid 1950's.
>
> Narelle do you know if the Australian / Cocos Island authorities have any
> input or say so over this suspension? It is a substantial escalation to
> have the US seize ccTLD domains delegated to a non US jurisdiction even if
> the registration services are outsourced to a US entity to manage.

We see ongoing issues with the management of .cc and are raising them.


> There is one other nastiness in SOPA and PIPA story which is the perceived
> acceptability of their proponents in targeting "foreign" websites. It is
> an interesting idea that my use of any number of services involves several
> instances of "websites" to view and manage these services. It also means I
> have limited clue as to the location or flow of my data around the world.
> Yet the US legislators believe they can distinguish between such content
> as it flows in and out of the US and feel it acceptable to filter or
> suspend URIs or potentially other identifiers on that basis. I can see my
> address book going into the US with 1000 addresses and coming back around
> to me with 900 as the US decides some URI's in 100 of the addresses
> contain "illegal" content.  Vive le cloud!

Yes, overall these sorts of approaches look to do more harm than good.


Cheers


Narelle