RE: sovereignty meaning attached to domain names -Reply

["Antony Van Couvering" <avc@interport.net>]

This is lunacy.  ccTLDs are not "toys" of anyone.  Where on earth is this
idea coming from?

Antony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-discuss@dnso.org [mailto:owner-discuss@dnso.org]On Behalf Of
> Kevin J. Connolly
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 11:53 AM
> To: Elisabeth.PORTENEUVE@cetp.ipsl.fr; discuss@dnso.org;
> participants@dnso.org
> Subject: sovereignty meaning attached to domain names -Reply
>
>
> Dear Colleagues:
>
> >>> Elisabeth PORTENEUVE <Elisabeth.PORTENEUVE@cetp.ipsl.fr>
> 01/28/99 11:24am >>>
>
> wrote:
>
> {snip}
> >There is a sovereignty meaning attached to domain names,
> >and as it, all gouvernments are concerned.
>
> >Governments are puting on web sites many if not
> >all public official information, and it implies that governemental
> >domain names must be protected. US government did understood
> >it perfectly well, and put aside .GOV.
>
> The ,gov domain is (last time I looked) being taken down (as is
> .mil).  The delegations within .gov are migrating to .fed.us, and
> I believe an analogous migration is planned to .mil.us.
>
>
> >We need the reciprocity for others countries.
>
> I beg to differ.  I have said before, and say again, that every
> "country" should have exclusive jurisdiction over the
> corresponding cc tld, but that the transnational tlds (I
> deliberately refrain from reference to "Generic" TLDs because I
> believe that that doman name governance needs to embrace
> "Special" TLDs, such as .air) should not be beholden to any
> national government.
>
> Once we let the 364-kilo gorillas (national governments)in the
> front door, who among us will have the fortitude to make them leave?
>
> Government interests are adequately protected by giving the
> governments their own set of toys.  If they choose to fold the cc
> tlds into the new arrangement, then the regime will need to
> recognize that delegations within the cc tld are subject to
> rearrangement at the behest of the competent national authorities
> <full stop>.
>
> Kevin J. Connolly
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