<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px">>And because, even if benignly, the government responsible for the NSA’s massive invasions of privacy and breaches of sovereignty enjoys a unique unilateral relationship with ICANN in terms of its unique role as regards root >zone authorisation.</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px">>Ian Peter</div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px">Ok, but besides the fact that it is the very same government, I do not see any other relationship between the NSA invasions and ICANN (or, even, Internet resources themselves). It was, basically, a traditional infrastructure breach, with the probable collaboration of some business sectors at the higher levels, leveraged by the huge computer power available today, the (traditional) geographic concentration of the undersea fiber, plus illegal telephonic monitoring...</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px">demi</div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Ian Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com" target="_blank">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>And because, even if benignly, the government responsible for the NSA’s
massive invasions of privacy and breaches of sovereignty enjoys a unique
unilateral relationship with ICANN in terms of its unique role as regards root
zone authorisation. </div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="nashton@ccianet.org" href="mailto:nashton@ccianet.org" target="_blank">Nick Ashton-Hart</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 03, 2014 7:27 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="jmamodio@gmail.com" href="mailto:jmamodio@gmail.com" target="_blank">Jorge Amodio</a> ; <a title="avri@acm.org" href="mailto:avri@acm.org" target="_blank">Avri Doria</a> </div><div class="im">
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<p dir="ltr">Because the gory details of their activities are not being disclosed
daily and because the majority of the technology and Internet bandwidth does not
pass through either country.</p><div><div class="h5"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">Jorge Amodio <<a href="mailto:jmamodio@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmamodio@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<br> we are doing for ourselves as a multistakeholder organization. The NSA fiasco makes doing ICANN's job harder. That makes it an Internet governance, for want of a better term, issue.<br></blockquote><br>Why are we focusing so much on the NSA fiasco ? What about the China fiasco, the Russia fiasco, the Turkey fiasco, the India fiasco, the Tunis fiasco, and so on ?<br>
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