Re[2]: [ga] Mr. Qaddafi Salutes Verisign

[William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>]

Actually, I uncovered yesterday that many sanctions against Libya
itself were lifted in 1999 when they turned over those suspects for
trial.

I was not able to determine which sanctions were lifted, and which
remain in place, however.

Thursday, Thursday, November 15, 2001, 8:39:41 AM, John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D. wrote:


> The issue is not censorship, but simple compliance with the law by US
> companies.  A domain registration contract is entirely separate from whether
> anyone is being "censored".  The issue is the continued performance of
> service contracts by US companies on behalf of parties with whom US law
> prohibits the performance of commercial service contracts.

>> Libya, of course, is a harmless country who has minded its own business
>> since it had the shit bombed out of it by the United States a few years
> ago.
>> In fact, I didn't even realise it was the subject of sanctions.

> Well, it is.  In fact, IANA (and thus ICANN) maintains delegation of the .ly
> top-level domain to an organization under government control in Libya.
> Apparently, that Libyan organization has contracted out marketing of .ly
> domains to a party nominally located in Cyprus, for obvious reasons.
> However, that marketing contract cannot and does not alter or supercede the
> primary contract between ICANN (inherited from IANA) and a Libyan
> organization, in violation of US trade sanction regulations pertaining to
> Libya.

> The issue goes well beyond the registrars and to ICANN itself.  Under
> recently-described contracting principles for ccTLDs, it would appear that
> ICANN has every intention of entering into direct negotiations with the
> Libyan government over continued delegation of the .ly ccTLD.

> The Iraqi ccTLD, incidentally, is not an issue, as it was not delegated to
> any institution in Iraq and is not maintained by or on behalf of any Iraqi
> organization.






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