At the Cairo ICANN meeting I sat down to chat with someone from the .sy (Syria) registry, just as I had at a prior ICANN with someone from the .ps (Palestine) regsitry. At the Paris ICANN meeting I spoke at length with someone from the .ir (Iran) registry, which unfortunately was not possible at the Cairo meeting as his getting a visa proved impossible, just as getting visas for 30+ Chinese engineers was impossible for IETF-73 in Minneapolis. However, we communicate regularly, just as thousands of other communicating pairs of people located in North America and Iran. My work has me thinking hard on things like Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and how digits are represented, so this lovely piece of art gets a second showing.
The JESI is correct that the portion of the Cheney/Bush catastrophe which it describes as "campaigns against the Taliban and al-Qaeda" has caused and continues to cause human suffering and losses to civilization on a scale equivalent to the periods we call the Pol Pot Regime or the Rwanda Genocide, though the JESI's choice of terminology, "weakens U.S. national security" is profoundly incorrect. The JESI's next rhetorical device, the second half of a two-themed opening problem statement, was written in a suburb of Tel Aviv, not a suburb of Chicago or New York. The JESI are free to reject the plain language of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and assert that Iran may not ever fabricate reactor fuel from uranium ore, but they can't call that American foreign policy.
We fabricate reactor fuel, a bad idea but never the less, USEC exists as a creation of the American state, see the American Centrifuge Demonstration Facility, Portsmouth plant, Piketon, Ohio, just as we manufacture automobiles, and we don't hint at bombing Korean and Japanese car plants or overthrowing their elected governments. Its not American public policy to start wars to preserve monopoly, though American governments have done just that, as the present Regime has, prior to being overthrown, as the present Regime has been.
The JESI makes five points:
1. Replace calls for regime change with a long-term strategy
2. Support human rights through effective, international means
3. Allow Iran a place at the table - alongside other key states - in shaping the future of Iraq, Afghanistan and the region.
4. Address the nuclear issue within the context of a broader U.S.-Iran opening
5. Re-energize the Arab-Israeli peace process and act as an honest broker in that process
The first is beyond obvious. However, the JESI fails to suggest that, now that we've put the Bush/Cheney Regime on notice that they must surrender on January 20th, we can reach past the creature that Regime created. The 2005 Presidential election was greatly influenced by Bush/Cheney saber rattling, resulting in the surprising, and contested margin of Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad (2d place with 5,710,354) over Mehdi Karroubi (3rd place with 5,066,316) in the first round, and the landslide in the second round over
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1st place with 6,159,452), and the winning message, Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad's, restated in his inaugral speach were poverty and the needs of the poor, and the need for the nuclear weapons states to reduce the stockpiles of weapons of mass distruction.
If those, poverty and the needs of the poor, and the need for the nuclear weapons states to reduce the stockpiles of weapons of mass distruction, aren't easy drop-ins to President Elect Obama's January 20th message, we don't need "Regime Change" in Tehran, we still need it in Washington City. And we should be looking to the parties contesting the 2009 Presidential election, just as we expect Ahmadi Nejad, and others, to look past the Bush/Cheney Regime to the Obama/Biden transition team.
The second assumes facts not in evidence, or rather, the whole Reading Lolita in Tehran thing (note the cover art was cropped for the American Patriotic Market). This "rationale" became "liberate women through B-52 strikes and keep them free by killing wedding parties" practice of the ISAF (Regional Commands North, RC(W), RC(C), RC(S) and the 101st Joint Task Force Regional Command (East).
We need to remember that there was an American program of social development and progress before the Savior (of women, or individuals) Cult hijacked US Aid.
The third point is sort of droll. We're going to "allow" the Islamic Republic to be able to effect policy goals that involve adjacent states? Try stating the converse without blowing milk, or the beverage at hand, out your nose.
The fourth point is a non-point. If weapons, then the context is regional weapons inventories, so India, Pakistan, China, Russia, and Israel. If non-weapons, then the context is NPT.
The last point is what should have been the first point. What the $#%@! are we going to do about the Zionists and their need for tension to keep their captive populations voting for one of the Zionist parties?
The Joint Experts' Statement on Iran isn't any readier for prime time than Wes Clark's notion that if we just turned over the Tribal Autonomous Regions of Pakistan to the Saudis, all our problems would be solved. It may be all the AIPAC Wing of the Democratic Party, electoral and executive can manage, but it isn't enough to really free us from the grip of crap that Al Gore and Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter have tried to free us from since Dwight Eisenhower abandoned Harry Truman's position on British ownership of Iranian oil and authorized Operation Ajax to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq and his cabinet.
And we're the ones that have to free ourselves, not some poor Democratic centerists trying to triangulate their way to political safety.
The 'Vindhyagiri' (F42), a Leander class frigate, and helicopters from the Naval Air Station, Kunjali were involved in pursuit of the merchant vessel. The MV Alpha, a Vietnamese registered vessel in route to Panama, was intercepted, boarded and searched. The crew were questioned and the ship's papers checked and the vessel released.
I was just asked to submit an application for the GNSO's representatives to ICANN Geographic Regions WG. I sent the following which I'd written a month ago in a Constituency context.
There exists an organization which is has been granted the status of a "registered student organization" by the University of Illinois. The purpose of the organizers is to promote an imaginary character, a skit, a dance routine, executed by a single actor in costume with some props.
The subject of a proposal to the IDNAbis working group is to prevent any label (any part of a domain name bounded by "dots") from having any digits from two or more of these sets, but the first three in particular. 
