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more on more on ICANN ordered by Illinois court to suspend spamhaus.org
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 15:52:57 -0400
Begin forwarded message:From: "Synthesis: Law and Technology" <synthesis.law.and.technology () gmail com>
Date: October 7, 2006 2:45:34 PM EDT To: dave () farber netSubject: Re: [IP] more on ICANN ordered by Illinois court to suspend spamhaus.org
Dave,Lauren wouild do well to read the blog by an Illinois lawyer that Gadi linked to.
whats to stop the judge from ordering the IP as well?Once a judge's order is being ignored, the people who ignore it do so at their risk. The judge would be perfectly within rights to attempt to order ARIN to do something everytime an IP was used to get around his order. He might be within his rights to order major ISPs to do what they can to block any IP for spamhaus that they find. That bit I'm not clear about. but even if the judge is not within his rights and he may over step a bit in the enforcement of contempt orders who is going to be believed. Are the police going to stop and scratch their heads and quote RFCs to the judge as a reason to not help him in the enforcement of the order? Are ISPs going to piss off a judge by arguing?
With respect, now is a time for restraint in commentary. Lets not give anyone any ideas shall we? We all know the possibilities. Is there any need to speak out loud and make things worse for spamhaus? We have the right to speech, yes. But if exercising our rights cause harm to the people we want to help...
On 10/7/06, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote: Begin forwarded message: From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com > Date: October 7, 2006 12:21:46 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: lauren () vortex com Subject: Re: [IP] ICANN ordered by Illinois court to suspend spamhaus.org Dave, Here's a thought question for us all. If spamhaus.org loses its domain name (and let's assume any other names they tried to obtain), what's to stop them from operating on an IP address basis only? Spamhaus has a large, dedicated, and mostly technically adept user base. I suspect that most of their users would be able to quickly substitute an IP address for a domain name in the appropriate configurations. Word about the change, and any related future address changes, would propagate quickly. Less convenient, sure -- but doable. In such a case, a court would have to order actual IP blocking, a much more complex and legally problematic undertaking compared with ordering ICANN to pull the domain name of a company that's not even U.S. based. As Bob Frankston frequently proselytizes, life *can* go on without domain names. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () vortex com or lauren () pfir org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, IOIC - International Open Internet Coalition - http://www.ioic.net Co-Founder, CIFIP - California Initiative For Internet Privacy - http://www.cifip.org Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com - - - > > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> > Date: October 7, 2006 7:54:11 AM EDT > To: dave () farber net > Subject: Re: ICANN ordered by Illinois court to suspend spamhaus.org >> This is a really good perspective on the subject, from an Illinois bar
> lawyer: > http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/664 > > On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Gadi Evron wrote: > >> Information about this court ruling can be found on Spamhaus's web >> site, >> here: >> http://www.spamhaus.org/archive/legal/e360/kocoras_order_6_10.pdf >> >> Apparently, at this stage, it is only a proposed ruling. But I am no >> lawyer. >> >> Gadi. >> >> >> >> >> > > > > ------------------------------------- > You are subscribed as lauren () pfir org > To manage your subscription, go to > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip > > Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- > people/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as synthesis.law.and.technology () gmail com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- people/
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