RE: [IFWP] Fwd: Re: Power Politics and the New Internet Order

[Roberto Gaetano]

Michael,

You wrote:

> > 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? ;>)
> 
> Yes. The ICANN Registrar Accreditation Policy and Agreement, in
> which ICANN tells registrars under what conditions they can register
> domain names for registrants.
> 
>From the mentioned document (see
http://www.icann.org/policy_statement.html), the opening sentence past the
Table of Contents sais:

                ICANN adopts the following policies concerning accreditation
of registrars for the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains (TLDs). 

1. is .com, .org., .net equivalent to the whole domain name space?

2. before this statement, who was deciding, and under which rules, who was
registering under .com, .org., .net?

3. were they "owning the whole domain name space"?


Regards
Roberto