Re: [ga] Nuclear Threat from the ccTLDs

[Patricio Poblete <ppoblete@nic.cl>]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:33:18AM +1300, Steven Heath wrote:
> 
> Thomas Roessler reported this on his http://notebook.does-not-exist.org blog
> that .ca said Leaving ICANN is plan B. Not complete consensus behind every
> point of the communiqué.

This is partly inaccurate. Plan B is to have a ccTLD-run system to manage
the part of the IANA database that refers to ccTLDs. (Note that this would not
be an alternate root, the idea would be to get the USG to accept this as the
authoritative source of information for ccTLDs in the A root.)

Plan B is being developed as a contingency plan, in case the current work
aimed at defining the relation between ICANN and the ccTLDs ("Plan A")
would fail for any reason. The work of the assistance group charged with
fleshing out Plan A was supported unanimously by the ccTLDs.

Leaving ICANN (which would go a big step further than Plan B) has not been
discussed in the ccTLD meetings, and Peter DT made clear that the comments
that alluded too such possibility were his personal opinions.

Patricio Poblete
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