Bill Lowell wrote:
> At 02:47 PM 3/29/99 -0500, you (Jay Fenello, I assume) wrote:
> >
<snip>
> >
> >Frankly, this is what all the fighting is
> >about. ICANN, like the gTLD-MoU before it,
> >wants to own all levels of the name space,
> >INCLUDING cerebalaw.com!
>
> Well, we'll see about that, now won't we? :-)
>
> Certain nations can control certain air spaces, or
> certain limited reaches of the sea within limits
> that are specified by international treaty, but
> no country owns even one atom of the air or
> the sea -- they belong to humanity, as does
> every speck of domain name space, from time
> immemorial until the Big Bang bounces back.
>
Exactly.
It has to do with "administration" but not with ownership.
IMHO, we need an authority that sets the rules for administration or
coordination of the domain name space, exactly in the same way we have an
authority that administers the air space for civil (or commercial) use -
ICAO.
ICAO does not "own" the air space, but it sets the rules internationally
accepted for the usage of it (from the definition of the air routes to the
requrements for the airports, from the security and safety rules to the
standardisation of procedures and protocols). ICANN is to the Internet Names
and Numbers what ICAO is to civil aviation and air space.
BTW, from which source comes the idea of ICANN wanting to "own" all levels
of the domain space? Up to now I have heard it often, but always as an
opinion of somebody on ICANN's intentions, and I was unable so far to find
any document where ICANN itself makes this claim.
Can somebody point me to such a document? ;>)
Thanks
Roberto
