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What is ICANN's motivation for complying with law-enforcement agency demands? Quite a number of them have proven themselves to be bad actors in the past, and t
by mapt 11y ago
What is ICANN's motivation for complying with law-enforcement agency demands? Quite a number of them have proven themselves to be bad actors in the past, and there are provisions in civilized society that restrict them from actually demanding things, absent a specific court order. Which shouldn't really apply to an international regulatory body in a prescriptive manner by most standards - and if it gets such orders it needs to leave for another flag of convenience that doesn't cripple a global infrastructural standard.
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" should be the ideal we aspire to. LEA and intelligence-agency intervention in the Internet system is typically damage to our liberty-printing machine, one way or another. Their incentive structure offers no benefits and poses a lot of difficulties in dealing with a free Internet. Pressure from them should be expected as an open adversary to the free Internet, and defended against.
- talideon 11y agoThey might've proven themselves to be bad actors, but they're backed by national governments, and that gives them a lot of sway when it comes to these things. LEAs do have a legitimate interest in this kind of thing because domain names can be used for fraudulent and otherwise illegal purposes, which is why they're involved in the process. However, it's up to the other parties to moderate this influence where possible, which is what the registrar constituency fought for in the negotiations. Believe it or not, what the LEAs were looking for in the first place was significantly more extensive then what ended up in the RAA. Here are their recommendations: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/raa-law-enforcement-recommendations-01mar12-en.pdf https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/raa-law-enforcem...