[151079] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Sat Mar 10 20:52:47 2012
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <5803165C-6981-43E3-9239-BF1F9D341720@delong.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:51:51 -0600
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: Nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 10, 2012, at 6:38 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> The more telling fallacy here that really speaks to the heart of why I =
am dismayed and disappointed by ICANN's management of the whole TLD mess =
is the idea that a CCTLD is the property of a TLD operator to begin =
with.
Your dismay and disappointment may be relieved by doing a bit of =
research.
Management of country code top-level domains is treated by ICANN as =
national sovereignty issue. ICANN has limited say in who runs a ccTLD =
(it must be done according to the wishes of the "local Internet =
community") and technical matters related to how that ccTLD is managed =
(e.g., ICANN, through the IANA root management functions places certain =
(minimal) technical requirements on the operation of the TLD name =
servers).
> The .IN TLD is property of the Indian people or worst case, the =
government of India acting in their stead. (or at least it should be if =
ICANN and/or Verisign and their competitors haven't managed to =
completely usurp the public trust.
You might want to read RFC 1591, ICP-1, and/or the ICANN GAC principles =
before passing judgement.
Regards,
-drc
