01-09-2012, 10:42 AM
I don't to beat this to death, but I am somewhat of a zealot when it comes to maintaining a free internet.
The administration of Australia’s Internet domain name space has recently been transferred to auDA, the Australian Domain Name Authority Ltd. Until the transfer, Robert Elz was the administrator of the .au name space. Now this would seem to indicate that .au would be exempt from US laws, but despite its contract with ICANN to administer the domain name system, the United States Department of Commerce even now retains policy control over the root domain.
This means that .au will be affected just as .com .org and all of the other 11 root name servers throughout the world.
This is why it is so important that even those outside the US protest this preposterous law.
Sources:
http://www.ilaw.com.au/dnsarticle.pdf
A Michael Froomkin - "Wrong Turn in Cyberspace: Using ICANN to Route Around the APA and the Constitution" (1999)
(01-09-2012, 10:07 AM)Leanne Wrote: what I meant is that I can still access google.com.au as a search engine even if for some reason google.com is shut down.Not true.
The administration of Australia’s Internet domain name space has recently been transferred to auDA, the Australian Domain Name Authority Ltd. Until the transfer, Robert Elz was the administrator of the .au name space. Now this would seem to indicate that .au would be exempt from US laws, but despite its contract with ICANN to administer the domain name system, the United States Department of Commerce even now retains policy control over the root domain.
This means that .au will be affected just as .com .org and all of the other 11 root name servers throughout the world.
This is why it is so important that even those outside the US protest this preposterous law.
Sources:
http://www.ilaw.com.au/dnsarticle.pdf
A Michael Froomkin - "Wrong Turn in Cyberspace: Using ICANN to Route Around the APA and the Constitution" (1999)