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Iraq TLD In Legal Limbo
tcd004 writes "FP Magazine is reporting that despite the fact that Iraq has been a sovereign nation for some 15 months its top-level Internet domain, .iq, has been in a legal limbo. Until now, ICANN has refused to hand over control of the TLD due to the nation's instability." From the article: "But one Baghdad political insider says that the imbroglio is likely to end 'imminently'--possibly by the time this magazine hits newsstands--with ICANN handing over .iq to the new government. It's unclear why ICANN may reverse its earlier decision, whether it be from mounting political pressure or a different position on the legitimacy of the new Iraqi regime. The organization refused repeated requests for comment. But officials affiliated with the Iraqi government indicate they expect the domain's return soon."
Iraq has been a "sovereign nation" for considerably longer than 15 months.
Yes, this is why our troops are still there. Because Iraq does not have a top-level Internet domain. Why, oh why, don't they have a top-level Internet domain? Is clean water really that important?
Similar to the upcoming US election results
How can a country be too unstable to use a TLD? Is the TLD going to run amok, strap some viruses around itself and nuke some other unsuspecting nearby TLD like .kw or .ae?
Sounds idiotic to me. Or, more likely, like some country doesn't want Iraquis to be able to express their opinions attached to the official domain of the country.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
"has been a sovereign nation for some 15 months"
15 months? Isn't time for Slashdot to stop accepting submissions form idiots?
This is a tech news site. If you want the "Hard" news about the cleanup after Katrina or the problems in Iraq, news.google.com has a bunch of nice links. You can also go to the website of CNN, MSNBC, or the BBC for information on the less tech news out there.
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Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Right, because there are no other online news sources with anything on Katrina/NOLA or Iraq. Because cnn.com, headlinenews.com, msnbc.com, etc. just don't exist any more.
Because when I think about news stories that might have a significant non-geek factor, the first news site that pops to mind is slashdot.
Get a little perspective. I don't like the stories about any flavour of BSD, but I don't bitch about it when they post them on the front page.
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Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
The article says it might be resolved by the time people read this. I guess it was right. Now what do we talk about.
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
The entire country is in "legal limbo". One little invasion can ruin an entire legal system. And then leave a vacuum where the country should be, for years.
Just this week, the Iraq Constitution talks collapsed. That can delay legal niceties like domain names, and even smaller details like ending the civil war.
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There are doubtless folks at ICANN who hope that the new Iraq-CAN'T. Those folks would doubtless like to avoid legitimizing the Iraqi governement, with the only little power they have, awarding domains.
.iq TLD to Iraq is a little dig at George Bush. They know they have to do it eventually, unless the terrorists and factions manage to destabilize the new government.
Also, recall the flap over the USA keeping control over the root servers? Not awarding the
Bureaucrats also hate to make a mistake.
They appear to have realized finally that they were for no good reason failing to perform their primary function.
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Gad, man! Do you realize that you've suddenly solved the problem of where to put the New Orleans refugees?
... which already has many 1000s of poor Blacks. It only stands to reason that the Bush Administration is probably seriously thinking about moving refugees to another poor area under US control with a dark-skinned population ... hence Iraq.
After all, my newspaper just informed me today that 126 hurricane refugees showed up in my city, Toledo
BRILLIANT! As the OP said, the TLD for Iraq should be *.iq.us. Anything else just wouldn't be honest.
[You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]
Since when is it ICANN's job to decide whether or not a sovereign government is "legitimate" or not? Is this just another ICANN power trip?
"despite the fact that Iraq has been a sovereign nation for some 15 months "
Iraq was a soverign nation BEFORE Bush decided to settle Daddy's old scores with Saddam and launched the invasion, costing thousands of lives, billions of dollars all for absolutely nothing. A war fought on a total lie.
"despite the fact that Iraq has been a sovereign nation for some 15 months " My ass.
What political opponent? The war in Iraq? Don't you want that to stop? And to continue to apply your totally worthless "American Revolution" analogy, don't we then have at least 5 more years of war, like the 1776-1784 war? Are you asking for 18 more years of Iraq civil war? After your warmongers told us it would be a cakewalk, that "major combat operations" were over after a couple of months? Doesn't your propaganda really reveal that you want endless war in Iraq, and everywhere else you're allowed to call the shots?
Typical Anonymous rightwinger psychopath Coward: too chickenshit to use an identity that would tag your future posts with the lies you post today. Attacking me for your own worst problems: partisanship and spin. I point out that Iraq is a legal disaster, and somehow I am an ideologue. Psychopath Republicans like you can't think of anything but politics, keeping your boys in power despite their miserable failures on every front. Your endless prattle about "humanity" is shown everyhwhere to be lies to protect your wallets while you destroy everything you touch.
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...all about GWB and the war and such...
And of course the time it is taking for Iraq to get a stable post-Hussein government and constitution. Two points to remember people: first, the USA didn't invent the constitution overnight, it really took years of wrangling prior to the Declaration of Independce straight on through the Bill of Rights afterwards and if you really want to get into the lineage of it, it goes back before the Magna Carta. Representative democracy isn't something that happens overnight and it takes a while to be embraced and become something people love and understand the give and take of.
Second, the Iraqis have been under top-down control for a very very long time and the only thing that happened was that the old hatreds were either in favor of only one faction or they were put on hold under threat of action from above. Just like the Soviet Union never solving the hatreds they for years kept from being acted on in open fighting and when the USSR went bye-bye...
It will take a while. But it is far better than being ruled by a guy who was running the place as if he was a two-dimensional stock enemy from a Golan-Globus film or for the ones requiring a recent example, as if they were Howard Saint in The Punisher.
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
I thought the U.S.'s official position was that Iraq was granted "limited" sovereignty by the U.S.
Of course, given that "sovereign" means "One that exercises supreme, permanent authority," it seems to me that "limited sovereignty" is a contradiction in terms, like "almost infinite" or "nearly a virgin..."
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You can't handle the truth.