[20037] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Oct 1 18:36:51 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:15:08 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810011459.KAA04059@comet.connix.com>; from Gary R Wright <gwright@connix.com> on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 10:59:23AM -0400
On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 10:59:23AM -0400, Gary R Wright wrote:
> hard to challenge them in a legal context). Of course it works
> the other way also, if someone from the Kingdom of Tonga were to
> read this thread and decide they *didn't* want to register spam
> and porn havens then perhaps it would be a good thing if that
> government (i.e., registry) had the authority to say who was in
> and who was out of the .TO domain.
Is anyone at all suggesting that the Kingdom _does not_ have the
authority to do that?
I believe Barry's original argument was that he didn't think they
_should_ have that authority (or, more accurately, that someone ought
to be able to override their judgement on the fact), but perhaps I
misunderstood him...
Cheers,
-- jra
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