At 10:57 PM 1/17/99 -0800, Michael Dillon wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Richard J. Sexton wrote:
>> >> And what of the ccTLDs that are not run by the governments? What of those
>> >> who are operated out-of-country? What of those who are operated without
>> >> the oversight (and perhaps even the knowledge) of the government in
>> >> question?
>> >
>> >If they are operated *WITH* the knowledge of the government in question
>> >then we must assume that they are operated under the oversight of that
>> >government, however light handed that oversight may be.
>>
>> This is not even true in the country you and I live in.
>
>Sure it is. The Canadian government knows who runs the .CA domain and how
>it is run.
Everybody does. This is a no brainer.
>They are also a participant in the effort to revise the rules
>and the operating structure for the .CA domain and if I remember
>correctly, they have a permanent "observer" seat on the board of the new
>.CA domain organization. To me this constitutes "knowledge" and
>light-handed "oversight".
An aquiescent participant. They are intereseted, but offer no oversight,
no matter how light you feel it is. If you believe this to not be true
please tell us the name of the person in the Canadian government chareged with this
responsability for oversight, and let's hear it from them, not you. You
have after all be caught lying in these forums before.
>> Governments have almost nothing to do with cctlds.
>
>That's because...
I don't care why. What I said stands.
--
"That's why there is a Protocol SO. To decide what the next
number after 16 is." - Dixon (tinc)
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