Re: [ga] A puzzle about ccTLDs and sovereignty

[eric@hi-tek.com]

Clearly the use and control of ccTLDs is controlled by market factors
not by legal factors. Any government control must include government
technological intelligence. (i.e. a lawsuit in any court dealing with
any type of sophisticated matter uses expert testimony and not only
percipient witnesses, indeed in any type of malpractice or
mechanical malfeasance one is required)
Even policy writing for developing nations IT must be so elastic as to
not need to be adapted every week.
With that said one can still advocate and scribe policy which protects
privacy, promotes security, and has some economic and social value to a
nation.
The economics and financial systems and building of infrastructure do
not allow for the scale like Verisign it requires much higher costing on
the name.
Providers must be ready to channel names into usable scenarios and offer
"package deals" so that the names may be readily used for commercial
purposes.

We may say that this is an industry and custom and course of trade based
rule system.  National laws will catch-up eventually but they must not
impede the progress of intellectual growth.
In developing countries we often find this lack of control to bother
academics and bureaucratic types.  In the U.S we see it bother those
that want government protection from someone with a better mousetrap.
In white water rafting we say "go with the flow" those who do not are
soon capsized and drowning along with their passengers.

Eric Dierker

Jim Fleming wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
> To: <ga@dnso.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 9:21 AM
> Subject: [ga] A puzzle about ccTLDs and sovereignty
>
> > I personally find it odd that many of the same people who see a ccTLD as
> > belonging to a state -- usually by some theory that it is an appurtenance
> > of sovereignty -- can also argue that the *sovereign* state is misusing it
> > if it leases it out or uses it for revenue.  Is Burundi "misusing" postage
> > stamps if it creates them to sell to collectors?
> >
> > Can these views be reconciled? How?
> > --
>
> Michael,
>
> With all due respect, you apparently do not have the time to keep up with all of the changes taking place.
>
> The so-called ccTLDs have been shipped off-shore. The decision was made to phase them out and to
> let the GAC handle the baby-sitting of the 0:0 .ARPA and IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name space. Keep
> in mind....that is a very small address space. There is really not much to do, but watch the paint dry at this
> point in time. The same can be said for the so-called ccTLDs that have no potential in the free marketplace.
> They will eventually fade completely from the scene. Most netizens already have no interest or knowledge
> about them. They have no mind-share or market-share. Using your "stamps" comparison, a country can
> print anything they want and if some fool buys it, collects it, etc. then who cares ? What .0000000001 %
> of the world does, is not interesting.
>
> The InterNAT (aka NAT, ICS, IPv8, etc.) is focused on selling to the market. The Top 2,048 TLDs will
> be the marketplace leaders. The software selects them and the so-called ccTLDs are not in that population.
>
> Jim Fleming
> http://www.IPv8.info
>
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