Re: FW: [ga-roots] TLD's

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:10:33AM -0400, Gene Marsh wrote:
> > As such, I used the minutes from the TLDA meeting to show how a small
> > number of individuals determine the fate of TLDs in other roots.
> <SNIP>
> 
> The TLDA does not operate a root.  The TLDA is not a root.  The TLDA does
> not represent a root.  The TLDA does not hold a TLD.

Sorry, you are playing semantic games.  According to the charter the 
TLDA serves

    "...to serve as a clearing house providing for the fair resolution
    of TLD collisions; to promote cooperation and provide liaison
    between TLD Holders and Root Managers in the interests of
    collision-free choice to the world Internet community; to
    periodically publish a single, up-to-date, comprehensive compilation
    of all known TLDs..."

That is, it provides what it purports to be the root zone file, and
provides the mechanism to decide what goes in that file.  Whether it
physically operates a root server is beside the point -- ICANN doesn't 
physically operate a root server, either.

So, in the TLDA world view, it is the trade association of TLD managers
that determine what goes into the root zone, and nobody else.  There is 
no open process, no community input, nothing like that -- it is a pure 
cartel. 

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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