[dns-wg] Remote registration,

>>>>> "Stephane" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> writes:

    Stephane> Even in Iran, which was the original question? One of
    Stephane> the problems with proprietary code is that you depend on
    Stephane> the relations between your governement and the US
    Stephane> governement. 

It's not even that simple unfortunately. The US International
Emergency Economic Powers Act applies to *anyone anywhere* who does
business with a state that the President considers to be a "rogue
state". The penalties include large fines and jail. [IIUC the
definition of "doing business" is very broad and could well include
providing Open Source to those states. The current US regime is
unlikely to interpret those rules liberally.] You might recall some
people choosing not to stay at the conference hotel for the RIPE
meeting in Prague because the hotel was owned by the Libyans.

This subject is way off topic for this list. Any further discussion of
the politics should go somewhere other than dns-wg at ripe.net.