[wg-review] RFC 3701
Dear Mr. Klensin, I read your RFC 3701 in http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3071.txt 1. if I read you correctly you advocate for ccTLDs to be parallel to the iCANN while you use wording establishing the IANA as a ruler for them. Where does the legitimacy of the ccTLD come from according you (i.e. what does the IANA has to do with ccTLDs) ? 2. you do not address the real world situation where iCANN (not IANA) wants to make some money in studying TLDs applications and where there are a few scores of augmented root TLDs. And a first real business take away (the iCANN taking ".biz" business from ARNI to give it to JVStream) and a total lack of consideration for the ".bz" ccTLD and the State of Belize which has not even been consulted while its commercial strategy is to be a shortcut for ".biz". Don't you fear that the audience that an "RFC" may have (even if it is only a well construed private comments) may lead to a situation where iCANN - calling on GAC as they currently do, and subject to Congress hearings for a possible US legislation - will be more and more the USNIC, while the ccTLD will grow independently from the iCANN and many new NICs will emerge from the will of entrepreneurs or from user groups (according to RFC.902/Multiorganization). Your positions are being used to that end anyway. IMHO we may need the iCANN to survive as a TLD registry and a liaison platform. We also need a DNSO like structure for operation/policy related inter-TLD relations. We may also need the ccTLDs as a structuring TLD worldwide network. To retain them within the iCANN, the iCANN is to be of some real use to them and to the community. It must also be structurally associated to them, i.e. the ccTLDs association. Otherwise we will see the entire network forgetting about iCANN and about many ccTLDs while learning about millions of TLDs (as introduced to the GAC by the iCANN board). Your comments welcome. Jefsey Morfin Chair, france@large jefsey@wanadoo.fr PS. This issue being of real interest to the WG-Review I copy this mail to that list.
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