OK, beyond the so-called circus, here is the excellent petition from 
Epic (http://epic.org/NSApetition) to the NSA:

Dear General Alexander and Secretary Hagel:

The undersigned individuals and organizations, concerned about the rule 
of law and the protection of Constitutional freedoms, hereby petition 
the National Security Agency to conduct a public rulemaking on the 
agency's monitoring and collection of communications traffic within the 
United States. 5 U.S.C. § 553(e).

We believe that the NSA's collection of domestic communications 
contravenes the First and Fourth Amendments to the United States 
Constitution, and violates several federal privacy laws, including the 
Privacy Act of 1974, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 
1978 as amended.

The NSA's collection of solely domestic communications, which has been 
acknowledged by the President, the Director of National Intelligence, 
and the Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Select Committee on 
Intelligence, also constitutes a legislative rule that "substantively 
affects the public to a degree sufficient to implicate the policy 
interests animating notice-and-comment rulemaking" under the 
Administrative Procedure Act. EPIC v. DHS, 653 F.3d 1, 6 (D.C. Cir. 
2011). Accordingly, the NSA's collection of domestic communications, 
absent the opportunity for public comment, is unlawful.

We hereby petition the National Security Agency, a component of the 
Department of Defense, for relief. We ask the NSA to immediately suspend 
collection of solely domestic communications pending the completion of a 
public rulemaking as required by law.

We intend to renew our request each week until we receive your response.

Sincerely,

     Marc Rotenberg
     Dr. Alessandro Acquisti
     James Bamford
     Grayson Barber
     Professor Ann Bartow
     Professor Colin Bennett
     Professor Christine Borgman
     Professor Julie E. Cohen
     Dr. Danah Boyd
     Simon Davies
     Dr. Whitfield Diffie
     Dr. Cynthia Dwork
     Professor David Farber
     Addison Fischer
     Professor David Flaherty
     Professor Michael Froomkin
     Professor Urs Gasser
     Deborah Hurley
     Professor Jerry Kang
     Sheila Kaplan
     Professor Ian Kerr
     Rebecca MacKinnon
     Mary Minow
     Dr. Pablo Molina
     Dr. Peter G. Neumann
     Professor Helen Nissenbaum
     Ray Ozzie
     Deborah C. Peel, MD
     Chip Pitts
     Professor Anita Ramasastry
     Professor Ronald Rivest
     Professor Pam Samuelson
     Bruce Schneier
     Dr. Barbara Simons
     Edward G. Viltz

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frt rgds

--c.a.

On 07/15/2013 11:58 AM, Francis Augusto Medeiros wrote:
> You may call it a media circus, but, indeed, this is sparking a more active discussion towards an international body to substitute ICANN due its status as an American company.
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> F.
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> On 15/07/2013, at 16:26, Jorge Amodio <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> The argument is not that others do it so it is cool. I don't intend to waste time discussing something that became a media circus, another source of fuel for the battle against the evil empire and not really an ICANN issue.
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>> There are several books, endless publications and papers that talk about what the NSA can do and how they do it.
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>> -J
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