RE: [council] IANA Report on the .pn Top-Level Domain

["Erica Roberts" <erica.roberts@melbourneit.com.au>]

Please see below a message from Loius Touton of ICANN on the proposed change
of
delegation of the .pn Pitcairn Island ccTLD.  Please let me have any
comments
you may have so that I may advise the Names Council of the ccTLD
Constituency
views.

This re-delegation appears to be well justified in terms of RFC 1591 and I
believe we should support it.

As I understand it, the whole of the community less 2 people (ie. the
delegate and his wife) signed the petition requesting the redelegation.
Since the delegate clearly did not have the support of the relevant local
community, it is difficult to see how it could be claimed that the domain
space was being operated in the public interest (or in compliance with RFC
1591).

What do others think?

erica


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-council@dnso.org [mailto:owner-council@dnso.org]On Behalf Of
Dennis Jennings
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 3:24 AM
To: ccTLD Discussion List
Cc: DNSO Names Council; Andrew McLaughlin; Louis Touton
Subject: [council] IANA Report on the .pn Top-Level Domain


ccTLD Colleagues,

Please see below a message from Loius Touton of ICANN on the proposed change
of
delegation of the .pn Pitcairn Island ccTLD.  Please let me have any
comments
you may have so that I may advise the Names Council of the ccTLD
Constituency
views.

On the basis of the information presented in the report, the proposal to
re-delegate seems reasonable to me.

However, it would seem appropriate that the new ccTLD Manager be required to
sign up to ccTLD Best Practice as part of the re-delegation process (see the
separate message on the CENTR Best Practice Guidelines for ccTLD Managers).

Dennis

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [council] IANA Report on the .pn Top-Level Domain
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:29:06 -0800
From: Louis Touton <touton@icann.org>
To: council@dnso.org

To the Names Council:

Today the IANA is issuing a report on the 1997 request of the
Pitcairn Island Council that the delegation of the .pn domain
be changed.  A copy of the report appears at
<http://www.icann.org/general/pn-report-11feb00.htm>.  The report
concludes, based on existing ccTLD policy as set forth in
ICP-1 <http://www.icann.org/icp/icp-1.htm>, that the delegation
should be changed.  ccTLD delegation and administration policies
are on the agenda for the March 9 public forum in Cairo.

Louis Touton