Richard J. Sexton
Fri, 17 Nov 2000 01:19:34 -0800
At 03:00 PM 11/6/00 +0000, Jim Dixon wrote: >On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Dave Crocker wrote: > >> >Whatever can be done to provide diversity and resilience in the >> >management of the Internet should be done. Keeping .EU clear from >> >ICANN's entanglements was a small but real step in this direction. >> >> How does another ccTLD in any way "provide diversity" for gTLDs? > >Several hundred million people live in Europe. .EU is likely to >become the TLD of choice in this continent. Jim, I love ya man, but are you on drugs or what? >who would otherwise register names in .COM/NET/ORG; it's likely >that many millions will register names in .EU. A dollar says ot won't have as many regs as .de in 2 years from it's incept. >One option was that .EU would be chartered as a new-style ICANN >TLD; this would have given ICANN nominal control over what will >become a substantial part of the domain name system. > >Fortunately the decision was to have .EU classified as a ccTLD. So instead th GAC will have control over it? Um, was this really thought through? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ph-1.613.473.1719 "The public-private partnership is the essence of fascist economics." --Dan Sullivan