RE: [ga] dominion over country codes

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

Tha may have been the biggest single mistake in all of Internet history.
Because that plan actually allowed for the effect of juridictional issues
and allowed foriegn sovereignty. It still need not have been the sole root,
but that is a side-bar on multi-root systems. However, it would have
resolved many issues on ccTLDs and USG exclusivity in commercial domain
regulation. In short, the Kent Crispins of the world could have their
institutions, and the rest of us could have our competitive root systems.
IOW, have the cake AND eat of it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: A.M. Rutkowski [mailto:amr@chaos.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 9:01 AM
> To: rmeyer@mhsc.com; ga@dnso.org
> Cc: Karl Auerbach (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [ga] dominion over country codes
>
>
> At 11:32 AM 10/27/99 , Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> >On the issue of ccTLDs, if the country were running their
> own root-system
> >and only tying it into the regular Internet via the ccTLD
> than it would be
> >absolutely sovriegn.
>
> Roeland,
>
> Yes.  Indeed, under the F.401 root - which interworks with
> the DNS root - countries do run their own "de jure" domains
> under a treaty controlled global root.
>
> This includes even the U.S. where the official registrar
> under US Government promulgated regulations is the ANSI
> Secretariat. At the DNS Washington Workshop in 1994, the
> ANSI Secretariat gave an extensive presentation on their
> practices and rules for consideration by the Internet
> DNS community.  It was decided not to adopt them.
>
> --tony
>