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In an effort to block Amazon from getting the top-level domain .amazon, Brazil may have put governments on a crash course with the private sector over control of the web.
In an aggressive and contradictory letter [PDF] on Wednesday to the overseer of the internet's domain name system, ICANN, Brazilian technology minister Benedicto Filho insisted the US non-profit not approve the creation of .amazon, and states strongly that governments have the final say on what should appear online.
As you may well know, Brazil is particularly enamored with the word Amazon, being the home of the Amazon Jungle. And it doesn't want some moneybags American retailer nabbing the top-level domain for the rainforest.
"It is the right and duty of governments – and not of Amazon the company, nor any panel constituted by three nationals of a single country in their individual capacity, nor even of the ICANN Board of Directors – to identify the public policy issues that may justify the Board to adopt certain decisions," Filho said.
He goes on to say that if ICANN was "required to substitute the views of governments and the GAC [Governmental Advisory Committee] for its own judgments ... it would be dealing a fatal blow to the multi-stakeholder governance model upon which ICANN is based."
In essence, Brazil says that unless ICANN does what it says – in this case not allow for the creation of the .amazon top-level domain for Jeff Bezos' Amazon – then the entire model of internet governance that the organization represents, where all parties including governments, the technical community and business have an equal say, is invalid.
That extraordinary contradiction – that an equitable decision-making process only exists so long as governments have the final say – is not the only one in the letter.
Filho goes on to insist that all governments agree with Brazil and Peru's position that .amazon not be added to the internet, but in making his case only cites meetings held in Brazil by Brazilian interests.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/27/brazil_dot_amazon_gtld/
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Monday October 09 2017, @10:11PM (2 children)
Were I such a person, I'll bet that it would lead to a real feeling of (artificial) importance.
I mostly just let mistakes go, because life is really too short to worry about them.
The phrase in question above sounded pretty odd, so I asked for clarification, and mentioned what about it sounded odd. If it came from a mistake, it would probably be helpful to know what was intended, and if not, I'd like to learn what it was that I missed. I have learned a lot from doing what may appear to be simple pointing out of mistakes, both about the topics at hand, and about language and its various and regional uses--because sometimes it's my mistake causing the confusion, sometimes the other person's, sometimes not a mistake but a missed meaning somewhere.
As ever, I am available at my usual rates. Thank you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 09 2017, @11:07PM (1 child)
C'mon! You know what he meant! "Loos, loos"! Refers to multiple toilets in Brit English.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @12:40AM
You've got it backwards - clearly the intention was "Los, los!" as in "Go, go!" in German.