Re: [ga] FW: Comment from the gTLD Registry Constituency

[robert blacky <rb32767@yahoo.com>]

Rejoining the list after a lengthy absense.  It
doesn't seem to have changed much.

--- Peter Dengate Thrush <barrister@chambers.gen.nz>
wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gomes, Chuck" <snips
> 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 4:25 AM
> Subject: RE: [ga] FW: Comment from the gTLD 
RegistryConstituency

> 
> > .  But as you
> > well know, a lot of ccTLD registries are not
> restricted to their own
> > geographical region; they function essentially
> like gTLD registries on a
> > global basis.
> 
> Name them.

I believe that .tv, .ws, .to, .cc, .bz are all
actively marketed world-wide.  

> Then, prove that their operations are outside the
> scope of the sovereign
> power.

All tlds, without exception, operate within the scope
of sovereign power.   I believe, also, that many
ccTLDs base their operations outside of the region
identified by the TLD name,
including some of those mentioned above.

> In those cases, I see little difference between
> ccTLDs and
> > gTLDs because users expand beyond local boarders
> and associated policy
> > issues are the pretty much the same.
> 
> Oh, puleeze!
> You know perfectly well that the fact that their
> users might have more than
> one geographic location makes them  NOTHING like a
> gtld.

> They have a local
> internet community -you have none -they have a
> single national government
> making unitary laws -you have the GAC to compensate
> for the lack of a single
> legal system  -they exist to serve their LIC, as
> trustees while your rights
> derive from a contract with ICANN and are absent any
> notion of
> trusteeship.... the list is large and unanswerable.

There are differences.  However, there are also
considerable similarities.

> When your right to run dot com is answerable to the
> dot commoners, you might
> be approaching conditions akin to a cctld.

The Network Solutions is just as answerable to the US
government, 
as Nominet is to the UK government.  Network Solutions
is just as susceptible to lawsuits in the US as
Nominet is in the UK.  Both operate under the
constraints of their respective soveriegn.

Bob



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