Thanks for your thoughts, McTim. Indeed, a GAC statement would be fundamental. You are right, the servers are outside of the country, but the government could go really far if ICANN does not take a stand. I am mostly worried about RDS-HN itself -- its work goes well beyond managing the .hn domain, and they are in an extremely vulnerable situation. [] fraterno --c.a. McTim wrote: > Hi Carlos, > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Carlos A. Afonso <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Dear people, >> >> > <SNIP> > >> It is obvious a clear and urgent position from ICANN against this >> arbitrary seizure is needed. >> >> > That would be useful indeed. > > Even better if the GAC were to issue a statement condemning this attempted > seizure. > > This is interesting timing coming the day before the end of the JPA. > > In any case, as you can see here: > http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/hn.html the DNS servers aren't under > the control of the honduran gov't, so they clearly haven't thought this > through. > > Does this mean that all Local Internet Registries (ISPs with IP address > allocations from LACNIC) will also be seized? > > it's a disturbing development indeed! > > -- Carlos A. Afonso CGI.br (www.cgi.br) Nupef (www.nupef.org.br) ==================================== new/nuevo/novo e-mail: [log in to unmask] ====================================