On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
Actually, anyone following the thread would have noticed that the topic at hand, in this At-Large discussion, is about earning public trust in one specific, publicly sensitive TLD.
I saw the "abortion and ICANN" column yesterday and shared it elsewhere as a source of ridicule; I did not think it relevant here at all. It falls into the same bin as suing ICANN to seize Iranian domain names as part of lawsuit settlements; that is, trying to get ICANN to be an enforcement arm of the US legal system to the exclusion of all others.
Agreed, or to be the enforcement arm of any Government. I agree that this article isn't that helpful, especially since his central understanding is incorrect: "To put it bluntly, ICANN is in a position to make the Women on Web website entirely inoperable – by ordering it removed from the .org database. " That is completely untrue. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel