Re: New York Times article on ccTLDs/IATLD

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

John and all,

  We agree with you assessment here.  On my trip to europe just before the
ICANN boston meeting, many in the EU as very seriously concerned about
the direction the ICANN "Initial" and Interim Board is taking, and want
protection
with respect to their respective ccTLD's.

  Now those ccTLD's that are managed in the US or operations reside within
US boundaries, are a different matter entirely possibly.  The management of
those
registries/registrars, will need to comply with US law unless the property where
their
centers reside are the actual property or that respective ccTLD's country, under

US law, much like their embassies.

John B. Reynolds wrote:

> >From my perspective, the key paragraph in the NYT article is the one where
> Mike Roberts refers to "back-channel pressure" as the cause of the
> "sovereign control" statement.  This tends to confirm my suspicion that
> major foreign governments have indicated that they will repudiate ICANN and
> thereby derail the privatization process if they are not given unambiguous
> authority over 'their' national TLDs.  If this is the case, governmental
> control over ccTLDs is a fait accompli.  Further debate over past practice
> or governments' authority to regulate "semantic constructs" is certain to
> come to nought.
>
> I agree that this situation is cause for concern about the stability of
> ccTLDs, particularaly those that function as virtual gTLDs.  (A glance at my
> domain name will tell you why I have a particular interest in this issue.)
> Governments whose TLDs are used primarily by entities outside their
> countries may be tempted to try to maximize revenue without regard to the
> rights of domain holders.  The only effective defense against such measures
> is to remind national governments that policies that disrupt ccTLDs would
> 'kill the golden goose' by causing current and prospective ccTLD domain
> holders to flee to TLDs whose stability is not in question.

Regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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