Re: [ga] A puzzle about ccTLDs and sovereignty

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@club-internet.fr>]

At 18:34 28/03/03, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
>In other words, if the Tuvalu government wants to manage .tv for 
>commercial purposes, it is their right to do so. But it must be a 
>delegation that comes from the Tuvalu government, not by a private body 
>like IANA or ICANN. (No, I don't imply that the current TV-NIC acts 
>without the Tuvalu authorization, it's just an example)

Dear Roberto,
even this doesnot stand. Because you want to establish by your own a rule 
supersedeing the State of Tuvalu's sovereignty. This can only be done 
through international treaty. State of Tuvalu is sovereign in accepting or 
not that a private body uses ".tv" for whatever purpose, should it consider 
".tv" a Tuvalu property.

Why an international treaty. Only because ".tv" can be both conseived as a 
service to the registrants (for them to be happy with a ".tv" name) and to 
the Internet users (to indentify a name as belonging to a Tuvalu interest 
or resident). Both possibilities were initially supported. The second one 
was killed by the "international TLD business" (Mike Roberts) 
created/enforced by ICANN.
jfc




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