more on more on ICANN ordered by Illinois court to suspend spamhaus.org

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Mike O'Dell" <[email protected]>
Date: October 7, 2006 5:11:22 PM EDT
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], Lauren Weinstein <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on more on ICANN ordered by Illinois court to  
suspend spamhaus.org


> Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Synthesis: Law and Technology"  
> <[email protected]>
> Date: October 7, 2006 2:45:34 PM EDT
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [IP] more on ICANN ordered by Illinois court to  
> suspend spamhaus.org
> Dave,
> Lauren wouild do well to read the blog by an Illinois lawyer that  
> Gadi linked to.
> whats to stop the judge from ordering the IP as well?
> Once a judge's order is being ignored, the people who ignore it do  
> so at their risk.  The judge would be perfectly within rights to  
> attempt to order ARIN to do something everytime an IP was used to  
> get around his order.
--------^^^^

NB: if the Spamhaus operations are in Europe, ARIN has no say in
the assignment of IP addresses - that job belongs to the
RIPE-NCC in Amsterdam.  between Spamhaus being in the UK
and RIPE being in the NL, the transnational jurisdiction
matter of requiring an NL-based orgnization recognized
in its official role by the EC to enforce a ruling against
a UK organization will be decidedly non-trivial.

	-mo