Re: Draft New Draft

[sthaug@nethelp.no]

> > > Steinar Haug just pointed out that there is government involvement in the
> > > .NO domain.  I doubt that he'd agree that the Norwegian government controls
> > > the domain.
> > 
> > I'm not so sure about that.
> 
> Who cares whether you are sure. Steinar Haug *KNOWS*.

I think it's fair to say that:

- The Norwegian government is well aware of what's happening with the
.no domain.

- The Norwegian government has never tried to exercise any direct
authority over how the .no domain should be run.

- We do not *know* exactly what would happen if the government should
try give explicit orders on how to run .no.

- As long as the current registration authority in Norway does a
reasonable job, we have reason to believe that the government does not
want to exercise any direct authority over the .no domain.

I'm not really sure that it matters a lot whether you call this
"government control" or not.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no