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). -- Professor Andrew A Adams [log in to unmask] Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/