Re: [ga] Mr. Qaddafi Salutes Verisign

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

Jefsey Morfin wrote:

> On 07:20 15/11/01, Joanna Lane said:
> >For a start, what would it take to run a spider over the WHOIS databases and
> >identify all the domain names registered to embargoed countries?
>
> By which right "embrgoed".

By U. S. Law.  We say what comes in and out of this country.

> By chance the US are offering hospitality to
> international services.

By initial creativity within ARPA, not by chance.

> The first duty of a host is to respect the
> hospitality rules, i.e. not to take advantage from them to the detriment of
> the host.

The first duty of a country is to protect itself, hosting anything be damned.

> It can be hurting. In some period the response was honor. It
> seems that today the question is money.

The issue is not money but 5,000 dead people from 86 countries.
We've seen what can happen when we let our "hosting" go lax.

I cannot believe what I read in Jefsey's post -- he seems to be
quite out of touch with the new post-Sept. 11 reality.

Bill Lovell

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