Re: .NU Domain Has a Governance Model

[Michael Sondow <msondow@iciiu.org>]

J. William Semich (NIC JWS7) a écrit:
> 
> Hello;
> 
> The following press release, put out by the Internet Users Society -
> Niue (IUS-N) and .NU Domain Ltd today, is probably the first formal
> public statement by a ccTLD Administrator and Designee on its defined
> rights and obligations under RFC 1591 and how it is now managing and
> plans to continue to maintain those obligations:
> 
> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990203/ma_nu_doma_1.html
> 
> Note that the government of Niue is involved in the process as a
> supporter of and participant in the Internet services and systems - but
> the services are privately run and funded. And the direct, managing,
> participants (members of the IUS-N Council of Advisers mentioned in the
> press release) include the Director of Education (High School, Primary
> School and Adult Ed administrator), Director of the National Library,
> Director of the Niue Division of the University of the South Pacific,
> Director of Health Services, and a member of the Niue Chamber of
> Commerce.
> 
> I think this public commitment and organizational structure established
> by the IUS-N could make an excellent starting point for ICANN's
> implementation of RFC 1591 as a responsible method for determining how
> TLD registries should be established and run.

I think the DNSO and ICANN would be very well advised to do exactly what
Bill Semitch suggests, as an immediate and practical work to be organized
and accomplished: study this and other well-functioning models, codify them
as a set of principles and practical implementations, including channels of
communication between governments, educational institutions, commercial
organizations, etc., and put into the DNSO and ICANN bylaws working
mechanisms for establishing cooperative, private administration of the
ccTLDs. This is precisely what is needed and what ICANN was formed to do,
and there's no time to lose in setting up committees of the DNSO and ICANN
to do it.