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
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