Re: [ga] .ct

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Ricard and all assembly members,

  Thank you RIcard for chiming it, although you are very late in doing so
as ICANN is seeking to shut this forum and the DNSO GA down.
(More below your comments, Ricard)

ADD-CT wrote:

> (excuse my english)
>
> > There are in the world many regions who have some degree of autonomy
> > from
> > national governments, or that were independent in the past.
>
> sure
>
> > What is in your
> > view the necessary condition for an entity to have an ISO geographical
> > code?
>
> what matters is not my opinion, but opinion of ISO. We know the
> conditions of the ISO 3166 standard. We don't want to change that.

  Good point here.  But the ICANN BoD and especially the ICANN
staff do want to change or control ISO 3166

>
>
> Our point of view, and also of many members of ISOC-CAT, is that ICANN
> should not take desicions based on the ISO lists. We think that ICANN
> should be independent of the interests of entities not directly related
> with the net.

  Well this is never going to happen...

>
>
> > What would you think, for example, of an application for a new ccTLD
> > by the Basques?
>
> or the kurds, or the palestinians, or the lakotas. Why not? Where is
> the problem? Would this to be a critical problem for the DNS?

  Also a good point here.  Why not indeed...

>
>
> > Or by each of the fifty states of the United States?
>
> Why not?  Have you an answer?

  My state, the great state of Texas is doing just this...

>
>
> > Or by the independist parties of Scotland, Quebec or Northern Italy?
>
> 1) We are not a party. We are a nation with many parties
> 2) Only the 15% of the catalans are independentist
>
> You are mixing different concepts. Cizitens of Quebec, Scotland, Italy,
> Basque Country or Catalonia has differents arguments and MANY
> differents ways to get their objectives.

  Also a good point here.  In case you didn't know ICANN rejected
Scotland a TLD of it's own.

>
>
> As I said in my first message, our way is a democratic parliament
> representing 6 milion of european citizens. Five years ago, our
> parliament voted with unanimity a resolution to get the .ct domain,
> from comunists to liberalists.
>
> > Should they be approved too? Should there be approval from the
> > national government or not?
>
> Well, this is a problem that must resolve the citizens of those zones,
> not me.
>
> But... can you answer those questions?:
> Why US minor islands (.um), Ascension  Island (.ac), Guernsey (.gg),
> Isle of Man (.im) and Jersey (.je) and others has a ccTLD and are not
> ISO3166 standards?
> What about Taiwan, Palestina, Macau, Timor...?
> Why ISO says United Kingdom = .gb, and the ICANN says United Kingdom =
> .uk?
> Why a zone without representation in the UNO like the Antartica (.aq)
> has a ISO3166 standard?
> Why needs a ccTLD an unhabited region like Bouvet Island (.bv) or Heard
> Island (.hm)?

  These were all Jon Postals doling out's to his buddies long ago now.
He kinda left a mess there I must admit.

>
>
>   Thanks,
>
> Ricard Vaqué
> -------------------------------------------
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> http://www.domini-ct.org
>
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