Well Esther, since you already got jumped on for the eroneous assumption
you made in the message below, I will let someone else do so the second
time. However I note that you assume that you will have contracts with
country code TLD administrators...
suppose a country code administrator decided not to have a countract with
you? how would you enforce your power? take the CCTLD out of the root?
if you had contracts with the administrators, I gather that you would have
them with NSI. suppose you and NSI had a dispute. What would you do? take
.com out of the roots?
do you see any legal need to treat TLD's in equal ways?
>There have been questions lately about the role of governments vs. ICANN
>"oversight" of ccTLDs, etc. etc. On November 6, in our cover letter to
>the US Government, we explicitly confirmed our recognition of national
>sovereignty. Here's what we wrote:
>
>"You asked us to confirm your "assumption that national governments
>would continue to have authority to manage and/or establish policy for
>their own ccTLDs (except, of course, insofar as such policies adversely
>affect universal connectivity on the Internet)." We are happy to confirm
>that assumption, but we note that the details of implementation of this
>objective may be complex. It may well be that this is an example of an
>issue where the Governmental Advisory Committee could provide a useful
>forum for discussions and advice to the Board."
>
>But there is a difference between "oversight" and mutually agreed contracts.
>We plan to have contracts with ccTLD administrators, as well as with many
>other Internet parties. Of course, as the letter notes, things are not
>always simple....
>
>I hope that clarifies things a little.
>
>Esther Dyson
>
>
>Esther Dyson Always make new mistakes!
>chairman, EDventure Holdings
>interim chairman, Internet Corp. for Assigned Names & Numbers
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