Thanks Bill, I'd like to help on this. And I agree working with ALAC, and particularly Marc Rotenburg, would be a good idea. On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:11 AM, William Drake < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi > > Thanks Kathy and Rafik for the updates. Good to know the bill won't be > taken up until after the midterm elections, but troubling that the WH is > nevertheless pushing forward with the notion of using the DNS to censor at > the behest of intellectual property interests. At least ICANN had the good > sense not to get involved in the latter discussion, > http://domainincite.com/icann-will-not-attend-white-house-drugs-meeting/ > > When the Senate swings back to consider COICA, I would still favor us > writing a letter, perhaps in conjunction with ALAC. I'd be happy to work on > a draft, perhaps after Cartagena and before the holiday season. If anyone > would be interested in collaborating on this just send me a note for future > reference. > > Best, > > Bill > > On Oct 2, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Rafik Dammak wrote: > > hi Bill, > > for contracted parties, they have pressure from US gov and even had meeting > at White house this week I think > > http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100929/20293711230/even-without-coica-white-house-asking-registrars-to-voluntarily-censor-infringing-sites.shtml > > > <http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100929/20293711230/even-without-coica-white-house-asking-registrars-to-voluntarily-censor-infringing-sites.shtml> > Regards > > Rafik > > 2010/9/30 William Drake <[log in to unmask]> > >> Hi >> >> Maybe this is something on which NCSG, ALAC, and others in ICANNland >> should weigh in on, e.g. with a letter to Leahy? It would certainly seem to >> fall within our bailiwick... >> >> Have yet to hear anything from the contracted parties, will be interesting >> to see how they play it… >> >> Bill >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> *From: *William Drake <[log in to unmask]> >> *Date: *September 30, 2010 9:54:54 AM GMT+02:00 >> *To: *[log in to unmask], "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" < >> [log in to unmask]> >> *Subject: **COICA* >> >> Hi >> >> COICA is an intergalactically horrible idea that seems designed to greatly >> escalate concerns about unilateralism vis. CIR. As CDT's letter >> http://cdt.org/files/pdfs/Leahy_bill_memo.pdf notes, >> >> "S. 3804 significantly aggravates the situation by suggesting to the world >> that the U.S. does intend to use the historic nature of the DNS (with >> American companies administering “.com” and other leading top-level domains) >> to impose American law on the global Internet. Under the bill, the U.S. >> asserts that it can take down websites created and operated anywhere in the >> world, simply based on the fact that the websites use the most popular >> global top-level domain (.com). This type of assertion of global control is >> the kind of U.S. exercise of power about which other countries of the world >> have worried – and about which U.S. foreign policy has sought to reassure >> the world. Thus S. 3804 directly harms the United Statesʼ Internet >> governance agenda pursued through diplomatic channels over the past ten >> years." >> >> A bit astonishing and sad that the bill was introduced by Patrick Leahy, >> who for many years has been a champion of online civil liberties and partner >> of US public interest groups on digital matters. But the IPR lobby is a >> powerful beast that apparently must be placated…Still, I'd like to think >> he's going through the motions here and knows this should fail. >> >> Bill >> >> >> On Sep 30, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote: >> >> >> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/open-letter >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> >> [log in to unmask] >> >> To be removed from the list, send any message to: >> >> [log in to unmask] >> >> >> For all list information and functions, see: >> >> http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance >> >> >> Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t >> >> >> *********************************************************** >> William J. Drake >> Senior Associate >> Centre for International Governance >> Graduate Institute of International and >> Development Studies >> Geneva, Switzerland >> [log in to unmask] >> www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html >> www.linkedin.com/in/williamjdrake >> *********************************************************** >> >> >