Re: [ga] Mr. Qaddafi Salutes Verisign

["John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D." <john@johnberryhill.com>]

From: "Roeland Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>


> The one-word answer for all of that is "treaty". This includes the court of
> International Law, in Den Haag, NL. The reason that the Internet even works
> is that it piggy-backs on international telecommunication agreements for
> telephony and telegraph.

For physical connectivity, perhaps.  For commercial contracts relating to
domain name registrations, absolutely not.

Whether a US company accepts money from the Iraqi government to perform
domain name registration services is not remotely related to what goes on at
the physical interface between different national telecommunication systems
that allow bits to get from hither to yon.

It may be possible to send postal mail to Iraq, but that does not mean you
can conduct catalog sales with Iraqis through the vehicle of postal mail.





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