Wendy Seltzer wrote:
> 
> * Singapore Meeting.
> ** How are we progressing toward meeting with the GAC to share thoughts
> and consensus points on issues of the public interest? Many of us were
> interested in joining this discussion.
> 
> ** Meeting workshops: NCSG would like to be more involved with
> suggesting topics and panelists for the Singapore Meeting's general
> issue workshops, particularly the perpetual "Abuse of the DNS" workshop.
> Robin suggested issues of government seizure of domains at the registry.

In the UK the Open Rights Group has been asked to join a consultation with 
Nominet (the UK ccTLD delegatee) on police requests for DNS 
suspension/withdrawal procedures. This seems to be becoming a widespread 
issue and not just confined to authoritarian unelected regimes (given the UK 
government's recent history on governments of all types I had to put in the 
"unelected" bit).



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