On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 20:24:24 -0500 (EST) Dave Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We've both agreed that the user of a domain only leases it, I believe > they're not owned by anyone, or at least owned by 'the people/system'. > Who would you say owns them? The registry? That would be a scary thought > because then they would be able to reneg on the leases or take control > back away from the user. We need to have an organisation, a regulating > body, such as ICANN that gets to set the rules. We need to be able to > vote people into power at this org (and maybe we can, I don't know, I'm > still fairly new to the domain reg business). And everyone needs to > follow the rules set forward by this organization. As long as there are > companies that will do whatever to work around the rules, and aren't > punished (ie New.Net), everything breaks down, there is no order. And so > everyone will try to get an edge over the others. Unfortuately that means > we have to do the same, and since OpenSRS is our representative in this > issue, if they come up with a service that helps us do what others are > doing, then that's a good thing. So long as we're as fair as we can be. Officially IANA the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority technically "OWNS" the domain system, the DNS system, and the IP numbering system. They've largely been stripped of their active participation in the international domain administration by the creation of ICANN. But even the ICANN links back to IANA for ccTLDs and other data. They are the top of the top levels. http://www.iana.org http://www.icann.org Bryan Britt Beltane Web Services -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ICQ: 53037451 Bryan L. Britt 501-327-8558 Beltane Web Services, Conway, AR http://www.beltane.com ~~~~~~~~~~Support Private Communications on the Internet~~~~~~~~~~
