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Any Free Speech Left in .US?
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You might also find grounds under the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 USC 552a - don't miss that little 'a' else you end up at FOIA instead of PA.)
The argument would be about definitions - whether the registration information for .us is a system of records that is under the control of an agency of the US Gov't. Given NTIA's intrusive hand my guess is that there is a strong argument to believe that such control exists and that the private registry operator is merely a facade acting under the contractual control of a governmental decision maker.
If that threshold hurdle is overcome, then all the PA's requirements about publication of the rules of the system of records, its purpose, etc etc, come into play.
I raised this same issue with NSF way back in 1997 and got a really weasly answer that didn't comport with even the most rude, much less rudimentary, notions of administrative process. Let me know and I'll scrounge up the pointers (all the materials are online.)
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http://Toys.R.US
Neustar, ICANN, ISOC and the U.S. Government insiders that continue to shape the [fading] DNS (and whois) terrain of cyberspace will be happy
to take the high-ground with you in the middle as
their "toy". You will be like the fat kid with the
thick glasses as the school-yard bullies encircle
you and laugh at you. Their little clique is very
well known and very tight. They laugh all the way
to the bank. You are their sport, their toys. If
you choose to play, they will be happy to toss
the ball from one player to the other, just over
your head. You get the honor of paying them
for the game. They are headed out on their next
vacation junket, paid for by netizens. When the
funding stops, they cease to exist.
http://Toys.R.US
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Any Free Speech Left in .US?
Was there ever any ?
Have you looked at the recent NAIVE comments from
Esther's latest stooge placed on the ICANN Board ?
She is pointing fingers at China for censorship
while orchestrating more subtle censorship via
the "ICANN Community". When it is subtle, it is
apparently OK. That is the game, having a variety
of players to confuse naive on-lookers. Those
naive participants are of course named as part
of "the community" and their views are shaped by
the insiders.
NAIVE + NEFARIOUS = a Human Tragedy
ICANN and their tight circle of Registries love to
have NAIVE people continue to enter their arenas. .US was corrupt under the Postel Regime and it
has not changed.
Do you think .CUBA will change whan Castro dies ?
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Cable rules? Broadcast rules? Network rules? [or ICANN rules?]
"The only reason to regulate here (cynicism) would be to protect the business models of existing broadcasters [Registrars] and the telcos/cablecos [Registries] who want to become broadcasters and want to create barriers to entry to others. There is no scarcity or "public airwave" or "invasion into the home" or spectrum allocation rationale for regulation of online video."
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There is no scarcity in the name-space. Just make .COM the new root and call it a day. Forty plus
million TLDs can't be wrong. Oops, better start
to worry about that [job] security and stability
and the load on the .COM servers. Funny, that has
not ever been a concern before.
Just imagine .COM is not there and it is just a
dot, the root at the right.
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Kathryn Kleiman
Internet[1] Law & Policy Specialist
McLeod, Watkinson & Miller
Washington DC
Internet[1] Law & Policy Specialist
No allowed (by law) on Internet[2]
Internet[1] = 100% lawyers (sharks) feeding on each other
Internet[2] = intelligent humans
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Mike Roberts Speaks Out - Yet Takes No Blame
"The Villain in the ICANN-VeriSign Struggle is the U.S. Government"
"The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions"
"ICANN, VeriSign and the government currently are bound to each other in an incestuous legal triangle in front of which an appearance of public-private partnership is maintained. This arrangement masks the monopoly related tensions which have surfaced in the latest contract renewal debate. It suits VeriSign’s economic objectives and the government’s political objectives to have a facade of privatization over the DNS and to make it appear that the ICANN-VeriSign negotiations are simply the working out of differences among private partners in the DNS."
Yep, it is a sham, a charade, nothing new.
Could the real villian be the steady stream of
naive ICANN wannabees and the nefarious actors
that spend millions each year on psych-ops and
operatives to divide and confuse the masses ?
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"57 percent of those currently registered"[1]
Only 57% ? Dictator Cerf Will Raise the Bar to 60%
Nice try Registrars, but no cigar. The ICANN
Dictator will just "re-spin" the required bar for
consensus to be 60%. Reach that level and he
will raise it to 75%. Get a clue, Cerf is
laughing all the way to the bank.
Registrars would be better off putting up their
own copy of the .COM servers and show that they
can collectively operate them for pennies per
year per domain. That of course will not matter
when Verisign and their ICANN division get
ready to role out the new technology that makes
Registrars go away, or become equal to any other
user.
Opposition to ICANN-VeriSign Proposal Grows
Feb 15, 2006
Posted by CircleID Reporter
Eight of the world’s largest domain registrars have sent an open letter to ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf, stating their formal opposition to the revised proposition with VeriSign for continued control of the Internet registry.
The eight signatories, which lay claim to 25 million domain names, or 57 percent of those currently registered, are GoDaddy, Network Solutions, Tucows, Register.com, BulkRegister, Schlund + Partner AG, Melbourne IT and Intercosmos Media Group.
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