[ga] 0:212 BIZ..."...it then becomes difficult to understand how .BIZ was handled..." ?

["Jim Fleming" <JimFleming@ameritech.net>]

From: "Gene Marsh" <marshm@anycast.net>
"...it then becomes difficult to understand how .BIZ was handled..." ?

.BIZ is still in the early stages of Proof-of-Concept testing on the toy 32-bit Internet...

...it appears to be a long long way from being of any interest for the commercial 128-bit DNS marketplace....COM and .NET are ready
to roll...

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http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt

0:212     BIZ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Marsh" <marshm@anycast.net>
To: "John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D." <john@johnberryhill.com>; <ga@dnso.org>
Cc: "Ramesh Kumar Nadarajah" <ramesh@mimos.my>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 9:04 AM
Subject: RE: [ga] New TLD White Paper released


> > 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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