RE: [ga] New TLD White Paper released

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

The US doesn't "own" .mx.  It owns the root zone file.  If someone sets up
another root that people like better, they can have an mx of their own.

This explains .biz.  There can be as many .biz as there are computers.  It
just happens that some are more popular than others.

Ok.  I've got work to do so I'm exiting this thread for at least a day.

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Gene Marsh wrote:

> > 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.
> >
> 
> And here is the crux of the matter.  If one accepts this, then the owner of
> the zone file is the entity that has explicit control over that zone file.
> ..MX has been placed in the US DoC/ICANN/IANA root, therefore US
> DoC/ICANN/IANA owns it.  Following this logic, it then becomes difficult to
> understand how .BIZ was handled, since the implication would be that it was
> NOT owned by US DoC/ICANN/IANA.  I am still grappling with the concept that
> this is NOT theft.
> 
> The simplest explanation is that US DoC/ICANN/IANA owns and controls the
> Internet and will do whatever they want with it.  And if you don't like it
> they won't stand in your way, but good luck.
> 
> Gene...
> 
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