Re: [ga] Attn: GA Chairman Younger....

["JandL" <jandl@jandl.com>]

> Learning more about technical and social effects of
> TLD duplication can obviously do no harm. But in the
> end, it is a policy question: Does ICANN want to
> restrict itself to all the TLDs left over by the
> alt.roots even though it is not legally required to?

Legally?  Legally if DoC enters a duplicate it will have offended the 
MOU and the White Paper merely on the technical issue.  It would 
not be legal.  In any case it offends the APA.

> Do the benefits of this restriction outweigh the
> disadvantages? And the problem is that the answer to
> this question depends largely on whether you
> (a) operate an alt.root TLD or hold alt.root domains,
> (b) operate or want to operate a TLD in the ICANN/
> USG root. Therefore I'm rather skeptical about a
> consensus on this policy question.
> 

Policy should at least require respect for the DNS by not allowing 
DoC to duplicate TLDs.  Period.  As for restrictions, we all live by 
them.  If I want to introduce a new TLD, I still have to make sure it 
is unique in the DNS.  So does ICANN unless it wants to create 
chaos.  

IMO, it is definitely something the GA should discuss in a WG.

Leah 


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