[Chapter-delegates] English Wikipedia going dark tomorrow!

[Christian de Larrinaga]

On 17 Jan 2012, at 20:57, Fred Baker wrote:

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> On Jan 17, 2012, at 3:25 AM, Christian de Larrinaga wrote:
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>> The timeline is instructive. He first had his domain tvshack.net suspended by the US agency ICE in 2010. No court hearing was held, no warning given. This action was justified because .net is managed in the US. He later had tvshack.cc suspended by ICE as well. This was justified as Verisign a US entity is the outsourced registry operator of .cc.  In neither case was suspension made due to an infringement in the registrants conduct with the actual registration. 
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> One of many cases, and a case in point on the constitutional questions I raised.


The implications are also International. 

The US is not alone in suspending domain names at request of a law enforcement agency. Nominet suspended around 20 in .uk in 2010 before going into a consultational huddle last year to try to establish some sense of a consensus for this. A tough call. 

The difficulty for the current Internet governance model is the increased impact when the US takes this type of action.  
If the ICE rationale was to become legislated in the US that risks a sizeable challenge to the way things are done today at ICANN and root server system. 

Christian