Dave,
Actually, IANA did not delegate TLDs to countries (it was IANA's policy not
to have any view on whether the ISO codes even corresponded to countries).
Rather, they delegated the domains to groups or individuals who resided
within the territory described by the ISO code.
And I would say that the differences are not so much between countries as
within countries. If there is a dispute about how a domain is run, it's not
from the neighboring state, it's from different groups within the borders.
Antony
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At 02:25 AM 1/19/99 -0500, A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
What's important is the basis on which the government acts.
In the public networks side, they act because they have the
exclusive authority under law, and they delegate the responsibility
to a third party. In the Internet arena, they act to facilitate
an industry-user arrangement, if at all. The result may be the same, but
the difference is significant.
The above statement utterly confuses the general policies being encouraged
for general Internet development, versus the specific policies pertaining to
ccTLD administration.
There is universal desire for general Internet service to come from the
private sector.
By contrast, there are very different views amongst different countries
about the policies they wish to be in effect for administration of the ccTLD
under their purview. Some are happy to have it administered on a for-profit
basis by a private organization, some want one or another scheme.
However it is essential to realize that a) these countries have been
delegated their authority from IANA, and b) the delegation is for the
countries to choose their own administrative models, rather than requiring
that the countries conform to particular country-oriented schemes.
d/
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