[WSIS CS-Plenary] Bush admin. objects to .xxx domains

[Parminder]

Hi Dr Milton,

I want a clarification, and hope you can provide it. I agree with you that
this present development is going to have great significance. 

However, I am not sure how this issue stands at present. Has US only used
its presence in GAC to voice opposition to the .xxx domain, (with all the
strength that a 'US concern' carries vis a vis other countries' concerns)

>>> Only then do you get a letter from GAC, only then is
it put on the front page of ICANN, only then does the Chief Executive of
ICANN, who voted for the delegation originally, change his position>>>

or is it as you mention in an earlier email that 

>> US Commerce department has finally chosen to use its unilateral power
over the DNS root in this case >>>.

If latter is the case, how exactly did US commerce dept exercise its power.
Or is it the fact that since US sits over the DNS control its stated
objection is itself to be construed as a (threat to) exercise of DNS
control. 

Above clarification is important to understand how IG actually gets
operationalised in the present US controlled regime. 

Thanks, and regards

Parminder 
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IT for Change
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>>> Parminder at ITforChange.net 08/16/05 12:36 PM >>>
>What's really interesting to watch here - from the point of view of
'who
>controls global public policy' - is how will the US objections be
dealt vis
>a vis earlier objections on the same issues by other countries. 

That question has already been answered. When, in the Luxembourg
meeting, other countries (Brazil, but also Denmark I think) objected,
nothing happened. When, AFTER the July 22 Senate confirmation of David
A. Sampson and his installation as Deputy Secretary of Commerce, the US
position changed. Only then do you get a letter from GAC, only then is
it put on the front page of ICANN, only then does the Chief Executive of
ICANN, who voted for the delegation originally, change his position. 

Dr. Milton Mueller
Syracuse University School of Information Studies
http://www.digital-convergence.org
http://www.internetgovernance.org

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