Re: [council] Item 2 NC agenda

[Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales <vany@sdnp.org.pa>]

Hi to all:

Just as an example to illustrate better the issues that Peter and Milton
described is the following facts:

Los Angeles, California, USA ----  Los Angeles, Panama City, Panama
California, USA ----  California, Chiriqui, Panama
San Francisco, California, USA  ----  San Francisco, Panama City, Panama
Panama City, Panama ----  Panama City, Florida, USA

And this is only a fraction only of the examples that there are only
between USA and Panama...and I am sure that
similarities like this exists amongst other countries around the world.

Best Regards
Vany



Milton Mueller wrote:

> I strongly support Peter's statement (with the exception of
> the implicit endorsement of sunrise).
>
> As I have stated before, name exclusions or reservations across
> ALL tlds is a very blunt and crude policy instrument that is
> fundamentally at odds with the nature of DNS protocol, which
> was designed to hierarchically delegate assignment authority.
>
> The best way for government to create "official" web sites
> reflecting their views is within their country codes.
>
> The sweeping rights in names created by such reservations
> have no basis in any national or international law or treaty.
> The process of creating such reservations must go through
> the DNSO at any rate, which is responsible for initiating
> domain name policy.
>
> >>> "Peter de Blanc" <pdeblanc@usvi.net> 10/04/01 09:52AM >>>
> I am opposed to this, especially the first paragraph which would totally
> exclude the geographic names.
>
> Once begun, there could be "mission creep".
>
> If countries wish to register their names, that is, governments, let
> them attempt to do so in the sunrise period, and make a case with WIPO.
>
> This is an example of regulation which interferes with private business.
>
> Finally, official sites in ccTLD gould be under .gov.xx  or .info
> perhaps  .gov.xx.info
>
> for example   Tokyo.gov.jp  or  Tokyo.gov.jp.info
>
> Peter de Blanc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-council@dnso.org [mailto:owner-council@dnso.org] On Behalf
> Of Philip Sheppard
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 8:14 AM
> To: NC (list)
> Subject: [council] Item 2 NC agenda
>
> In preparation for item 2 - GAC statement in Montevideo of our meeting,
> I would appreciate comments on the attached proposed response. If there
> is support we can vote on this (or an amendment thereof) at the meeting.
>
>
>
> Philip Sheppard
> NC Chair

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Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales
Information Technology Specialist
Sustainable Development Networking Programme/Panama
e-mail: vany@sdnp.org.pa
http://www.sdnp.org.pa