Re: [ga] New TLD White Paper released

["John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D." <john@johnberryhill.com>]

From: "Ramesh Kumar Nadarajah" <ramesh@mimos.my>

> Question for the professionals: Does it make a difference that the ccTLD
> community, ICANN and the GAC operate based on the principle stated in
> RFC 1591

No, it doesn't.  The questions of (a) what IANA voluntarily chooses to do,
and (b) what a nation is entitled to have by right, are two entirely separate
questions.

I can certainly publically state that I intend to use my home computer to
further what I deem to be the best interests of the nation of Madagascar.
That does not give the government of Madagascar an enforcible right to come
to my house in order to possess or control my computer.

Thinking that nations "should" control corresponding ccTLDs and believing
that nations "ought to" control corresponding ccTLDs, and posting
vociferously to the GA list that it would be a wonderful thing to have
nations control corresponding ccTLDs, simply do not vest nations with a
"right" to control those TLDs.  The owner of a zone file can follow whatever
whims its heart desires.




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