Interesting white paper about the .pr ccTLD controversy
The paper seeks to analyse and explain flaws present at three levels of governance: the organisation that oversees the Domain NameSystem, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); the Puerto Rican government; and the university. http://www.scribd.com/doc/103604145/The-Pr-Controversy#fullscreen It was written by Érika J. Sánchez Vázquez, a former student of the University of Puerto Rico. More on her here: http://www.american.edu/soc/resources/Spring-2013-deans-interns.cfm -ed -- *NOTICE:* This email may contain information which is confidential and/or subject to legal privilege, and is intended for the use of the named addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, disclose or copy any part of this email. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately.
thank you eduardo. i will read it with interest -- i've met dr. oscar moreno de ayala on several occasions, nanog in the d.r., icann at cartagena, etc., and remain curious as to the fact situation, and the general problem of redelegation absent mutual consent.
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams < ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net> wrote:
thank you eduardo. i will read it with interest -- i've met dr. oscar moreno de ayala on several occasions, nanog in the d.r., icann at cartagena, etc., and remain curious as to the fact situation, and the general problem of redelegation absent mutual consent.
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On 6/14/13 1:16 PM, Eduardo Diaz wrote:
The paper seeks to analyse and explain flaws present at three levels of governance: the organisation that oversees the Domain NameSystem, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); the Puerto Rican government; and the university.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/103604145/The-Pr-Controversy#fullscreen
It was written by Érika J. Sánchez Vázquez, a former student of the University of Puerto Rico. More on her here: http://www.american.edu/soc/resources/Spring-2013-deans-interns.cfm
Eduardo, I gave some thought to the .iq redelegation in the past, where the operator was not located in Iraq, and the Iraq-resident communications infrastructure was actively degraded by a belligerent state, and the facilities of and person of the delegated registry operator seized by a belligerent state. Ms. Sánchez Vázquez offers that a change of physical address is sufficient to support the inference that redelegation occurred. I differ. The University could have moved, leaving the Gauss entity unchanged, and the Gauss entity could have moved, leaving the University unchanged. Neither necessarily constitutes anything more than ordinary property occupancy changes, not substantive administrative or legal changes. As Ms. Sánchez Vázquez observes, the University is somewhat dynamic, independent of its interest in the delegation from the IANA. Ms. Sánchez Vázquez offers that as some aspect(s) of control did not pass to a "multi-stakeholder" controlling body, that some form of malfeasance occurred. I differ. Prior to privatization, IANA policy was made by a government contractor, and no sovereign has a duty to follow the privatization path of the United States. It is unfortunate that Ms. Sánchez Vázquez chose to characterize the original delegee as engaging in "a process of deceit" when attempting to summarize her own admittedly limited access to the legal filings of the parties, and the obviously limited apprehension of both how Jon delegated responsibility to "friends of Jon", and just how wide spread the marginal utilization of ccTLD namespaces were during most of this period. We can observe that independent of the positions of the principals of the University, and Gauss, it is not the case that .PR has been, like many ccTLDs, repurposed to be sources of inventory expansion for VGRS, or NuStar, nor to be the source of inventory for independent registry operators, unrelated to the public interest of internet users in Puerto Rico, and we can further observe, that in the case of .PN, even repurposing for operator profit with no local service was not sufficient to support redelegation without mutual consent. We can also observe that the principal of redelegation by men with guns, that is, the unilateral assertion of a right by government, has, with only one exception -- the example I mentioned above -- not found success at the IANA. I appreciate that you personally find the situation less than desirable. I worked for NuStar, wrote the technical portion of its winning bid for .US, with the understanding that it would, when operating the registry, end the wide-spread practice of cyber-squatting on cities. Of course, the contract with the US DoC did allow greater revenue from a flat, COM-like namespace, and the suppression through awards of city names to individuals (6 controlled nearly half of the municipally named US media markets) continued. Eric Brunner-Williams Eugene, Oregon
Muchos gratias Edouardo. Al fin , puedo comprender un poco mas el dilemna de PR. I mean: At last, I can understand a little more the dilemna of PR'. Louis Houle Président La Société Internet du Québec (ISOC Québec) Louis.Houle@isocquebec.org Le 2013-06-14 16:16, Eduardo Diaz a écrit :
The paper seeks to analyse and explain flaws present at three levels of governance: the organisation that oversees the Domain NameSystem, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); the Puerto Rican government; and the university.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/103604145/The-Pr-Controversy#fullscreen
It was written by Érika J. Sánchez Vázquez, a former student of the University of Puerto Rico. More on her here: http://www.american.edu/soc/resources/Spring-2013-deans-interns.cfm
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I notice another ccTLD hooha brewing http://www.itworld.com/internet/365167/kenyan-regulator-looks-decommission-d... j On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Eduardo Diaz <eduardodiazrivera@gmail.com>wrote:
The paper seeks to analyse and explain flaws present at three levels of governance: the organisation that oversees the Domain NameSystem, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); the Puerto Rican government; and the university.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/103604145/The-Pr-Controversy#fullscreen
It was written by Érika J. Sánchez Vázquez, a former student of the University of Puerto Rico. More on her here: http://www.american.edu/soc/resources/Spring-2013-deans-interns.cfm
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