[extropy-chat] Petition to Activate the '.iq' Country Code for Iraq

Amara Graps amara at amara.com
Fri Sep 24 14:48:08 UTC 2004


You can sign this petition online  -- Amara

http://www.DialogueChannel.com/iraq_petition.htm



To: All Internet governing authorities, the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority (IANA), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN), the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department
of State, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), the U.S. Agency
for International Development (USAID), the United Nations, UNESCO, the
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the Iraqi Governing
Council, the Iraq Ministry of Communications, the Embassy of Iraq, all
Iraqi Internet companies and organizations, and all members of the
Iraq reconstruction community

The Iraq Internet Petition:

1.	Iraq and its people are entitled to their own country code Top
Level Domain on the Internet.

2.	In 1997, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned
".iq" as Iraq's Internet country code (for example, "www.NationalLibrary.iq").

3.	However, Iraq's Internet country code was abruptly deactivated
before the 2003 Iraq War. Without good reason, it is still not
operational in spite of increased Internet usage by Iraqis around the
world.

4.	Iraq needs its own Internet country code in order to join the
other nations of the world as an equal on the Internet. The Iraqi
people must be able to participate in Internet communications and the
Internet economies under their own national identity.

5.	Therefore, I urge all parties to engage in an open process to
immediately activate Iraq's country code Top Level Domain on the
Internet. The .iq domain must be assigned to a trusted Internet
registrar so that all Iraqis and all Iraqi organizations may have a
proper Iraqi Internet address.




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