re [Internet Policy] Why is ISOC's PIR promoting a private global copyright censorship court for domains?

["David Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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From: "Bob Frankston" <Bob19-0501 () bobf frankston com>
Subject: RE: [IP] [Internet Policy] Why is ISOC's PIR promoting a private global copyright censorship court for domains?
Date: February 14, 2017 at 9:56:26 AM EST
To: dave () farber net, "       'ip'" <ip () listbox com>

Yet another reminder of why we must remove the semantics from the DNS. The meaning of names is a social issue and 
putting meaning into the plumbing of the Internet works at cross-purposes with the Internet as Infrastructure. Even 
more so with something like .org which assumes names must be globally unique.
 
It’s akin to the days when a part number would be the index into a database or, worse, a disk address. We soon learned 
the necessity of a level of indirection in order to have databases that could survive change. Even worse when we have 
domain names that expire! Imagine shipping a product only to have the part number become meaningless while it sits in 
the warehouse – that is what happens to domain names. Perhaps we need a T-shirt saying “The future is 404”.
 
In addition to making the Internet be more robust a level of indirection also enhances privacy by removing unnecessary 
semantics. <>
 
We have trademark, copyright and other mechanisms. Why are we trying to reinvent them while ignoring all we’ve learned 
over the centuries?
 
This should all be obvious – what am I missing?
 
From: Dave Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 06:29
To: ip <ip () listbox com>
Subject: [IP] [Internet Policy] Why is ISOC's PIR promoting a private global copyright censorship court for domains?
 
 
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From: Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm () eff org <mailto:jmalcolm () eff org>>
Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 8:01 PM
Subject: [Internet Policy] Why is ISOC's PIR promoting a private global copyright censorship court for domains?
To: <internetpolicy () elists isoc org <mailto:internetpolicy () elists isoc org>>


For those who may have missed it, ISOC's Public Interest Registry is
planning to establish by the end of the quarter a new compulsory private
arbitration system that would allow copyright owners to cancel .org
domain names based on allegations of copyright infringement:

http://domainincite.com/21517-the-pirate-bay-likely-to-be-sunk-as-org-adopts-udrp-for-copyright 
<http://domainincite.com/21517-the-pirate-bay-likely-to-be-sunk-as-org-adopts-udrp-for-copyright>

This is also being pushed as an international best practice standard for
other domain registries to adopt:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/healthy-domains-initiative-censorship-through-shadow-regulation 
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/healthy-domains-initiative-censorship-through-shadow-regulation>

This hardly seems like a measure that's in the "public interest".  What
do ISOC members think about this proposal?

--
Jeremy Malcolm
Senior Global Policy Analyst
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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