[64369] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: data request on Sitefinder
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Tue Oct 21 11:06:32 2003
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:03:09 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <17540000.1066746398@odlaptop>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Owen DeLong wrote:
> The issues that must be addressed are the issues of internet governance,
> control of the root (does Verisign serve ICANN or vice-versa), and
> finally, whether the .com/.net zones belong to the public trust or to
> Verisign. Focusing on the technical is to fiddle while Rome burns.
>
This is the part that drives me nuts. Unless a court ordered it
otherwise, the root servers can designate ANYONE as the registry for a
tld. My understanding is that the process for making such changes is
lengthy and involves the agreement of 3 different organizations.
However, on a technical level, such changes are possible, and such a
registry can form agreements with ICANN and the various registrars.
I'm suddenly reminded of .org...
-Jack
