Phillip,
On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 08:24 -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
If nothing is done then sooner or later there will be some idiot on
his hind legs in the Senate talking for 21 hours demanding that Cuba
or Palestine be dropped out of the DNS root or be denied IPv6
allocations or some equally stupid grandstanding demand designed to
give him a platform on which to run for higher office.
This has already happened. Some US-Israeli lobby thing asked RIPE NCC
in 2012 (IIRC) to stop economically support a by some nation states
blockaded Iran via removing its routing registration information and IP
assignments, etc. Not sure exactly how it went from there, but the
request was essentially ignored AFAIK.
The problem is not what happens when a lobbyist approaching on of these
bodies directly is ignored, but when said lobbyists persuades a legal
apparatus with standing, to make similarly ill-advised requests.
Or to connect back to the Montevideo statement, how to manage a
globally cohesive One Internet without exposing it to the threat of
legal assault. I.e. how to put the Internet above the law of any one
nation state, essentially.
Today, a popular belief in Swedish "IGF" circles is "the law applies
equally to online as it does to offline" -- but this doesn't really
compile well for the Internet IMHO where we have 250 something different
laws, as it is absolutely fragmenting the Internet judicially speaking
to each nation state having some sort of power over its national
Internet segment...
IMHO, the Internet is a global communications fabric, transcending and
superseding individual nation states. Forcefully and offensively
removing someones access to it is a crime by any human standard.
/M
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