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ICANN: Keep the Core Neutral, Stupid

ICANN's travelling circus meets in San Juan, Puerto Rico this week. One of the main subjects of discussion has been the introduction of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs), after a GNSO Report proposed 19 "Recommendations" for criteria these new domain strings should meet -- including morality tests and "infringement" oppositions.

I spoke at a workshop on free expression. (another report) It's important to keep ICANN from being a censor, or from straying beyond its narrow technical mandate. The thick process described in the GNSO report would be expensive, open to "hecklers' vetos," and deeply political.

Instead, I recommended that, along the lines of David Isenberg's Stupid Network, ICANN should aim for a "stupid core": approve strings after a minimal test for direct or visual collision. Just as we couldn't predict what applications or content would be successful on the Internet, but benefit from the ease with which innovators can experiment with a wide range, we'll benefit if entrepreneurs can experiment with new TLDs without a lot of central pre-screening. Rather than supporting a race to the bottom to adopt restrictions on the lines of the most restrictive government views of permissible expression (no human rights, sexuality, or "hate"), we must leave it to the governments to apply those restrictions at the edges too, in their own jurisdictions if they insist, but not at the center on all.

Of course I do not support government censorship even at the local level, but between local control, which can itself be a source of experimentation, and central control, which becomes ossified and restrictive at the lowest level, I think local law poses less threat to global free expression. If you agree that ICANN should keep moral judgments out of the DNS root, sign the petition to Keep the Core Neutral.




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Duke's CSPD Announces Moving Image Contest Winners




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First Supreme Court brief filed in Grokster argues




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Code theft, License Agreements




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GNU compiling on Mac OS X legal issues?




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Siyāsat-i jināyī-i Afghānistān dar qibāl-i zanān-i bazahʹyīdah dar partaw-i asnād-i bayn al-milal = Criminal policy of Afghanistan on the women victims in accordance with the international documents

Location: Main Library- HV6250.4.W65N78 2011




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Wrong cops

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Conversaciones con Mario Rivero : o la poesía urbana

Location: Main Media Collection - Video record 42435 DVD




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Michael Collins

Location: Main Media Collection - Video record 42396 DVD




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Deacons for Defense

Location: Main Media Collection - Video record 42315 DVD




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Brief encounter

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Brief encounter

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Cop

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Deep cover

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Con la pata quebrada = Barefoot and in the kitchen

Location: Main Media Collection - Video record 42381 DVD




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Anne of Green Gables, the continuing story

Location: Main Media Collection - Video record 42368 DVD




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Love between the covers

Location: Main Media Collection - Video record 42353 DVD




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Homeward bound II lost in San Francisco

Location: Main Media Collection - Video record 42439 DVD




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Federal prisoners in jails, 1929-30. A supplement to the Annual report of the federal penal and correctional institutions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930.

Location: Government Information - J 16.1:929-30/SUPP.




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Children of the recession : the impact of the economic crisis on child well-being in rich countries

Location: Main Oversize- HQ767.9.C453 2014




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Violence, statistics, and the politics of accounting for the dead

Location: Law Library- JC328.6V56 2016




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Children in custody : advance report on the juvenile detention and correctional facility census of 1972-73.

Location: Government Information - J 1.42/3:SD-JD-2




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Prosecution of adult felony defendants in Los Angeles County: a policy perspective,

Location: Government Information - J 1.44:L 89




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At the core and in the margins : incorporation of Mexican immigrants in two rural Midwestern communities

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Modelling Human Behaviour in Landscapes Basic Concepts and Modelling Elements

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Vaccine Design Methods and Protocols, Volume 2: Vaccines for Veterinary Diseases

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Biotechnology of Plant Secondary Metabolism Methods and Protocols

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Animal Coronaviruses

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Breast Cancer Methods and Protocols

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Optogenetics Methods and Protocols

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Bacterial Therapy of Cancer Methods and Protocols

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Computational Design of Ligand Binding Proteins

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Statistical Genomics Methods and Protocols

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Programmed Cell Death Methods and Protocols

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Apoptosis Methods in Toxicology

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RNA-Protein Complexes and Interactions Methods and Protocols

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Plant Nitric Oxide Methods and Protocols

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Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology Protocols Single-Cell and Single-Molecule Methods

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Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology Protocols Ultrastructure and Imaging

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Alexandre le Grand à la lumière des manuscrits et des premiers imprimés en Europe (XIIe - XVIe siècle): Matérialité des textes, contextes et paratextes : des lectures originales

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Comment le Livre s’est fait livre. La fabrication des manuscrits bibliques (ive-xve siècle) : bilan, résultats, perspectives de recherche : Actes du colloque international organisé à l’Université de Namur du 23 au 25 mai 2012

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Compétition et sacré au haut Moyen Âge : entre médiation et exclusion

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Early Medieval Ireland and Europe. Chronology, Contacts, Scholarship: A Festschrift for Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

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Economies, Public Finances, and the Impact of Institutional Changes in Interregional Perspective: The Low Countries and Neighbouring German Territories (14th‑17th Centuries)

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Espace sacré, mémoire sacrée. Le culte des évêques dans leurs villes (IVe-XXe siècle): Actes du colloque international de Tours 10-12 juin 2010

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Exclure de la communauté chrétienne : Sens et pratiques sociales de l'anathème et de l'excommunication (IVe-XIIe s.)

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Golden Middle Ages in Europe : New Research into Early-Medieval Communities and Identities

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Knowledge, Contemplation, and Lullism : Contributions to the Lullian Session at the SIEPM Congress - Freising, August 20-25, 2012

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L'écrit et le livre peint en Lorraine, de Saint-Mihiel à Verdun (IXe-XVe siècles): Actes du colloque de Saint-Mihiel (25-26 octobre 2010)

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La Formule au Moyen Âge II = Formulas in Medieval Culture II: Actes du colloque international de Nancy et Metz, 7-9 juin 2012 = Proceedings of the International Conference, Nancy and Metz, 7th-9th June 2012

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