Roberto,
> Under the PTO regime, the authoritative TLDs are designated
> by Administrations under ITU-T Rec. F.401
>
>Thanks.
>I know you like to talk about the ITU ;>) but this is not what I asked.
You focussed on the notion of authoritative. My example
underscored what is not authoritative in the Internet arena.
It seemed an appropriate point of departure.
>So, in practice, should AFNIC go out of business tomorrow, who will decide
>who will pick up the business of .fr?
>
>What does it mean, in practice in this case, "the prevalent user
>arrangements"?
If it is tomorrow, it is the US Dept of Commerce which has
control of the prevailing root servers, *and* the the DNS
server operators who point to those root servers. That root
server control will be inhereted by the a new user coordinating
organization - perhaps ICANN.
What one would expect is that either of these entities would
conduct an open process that involved the relevant parties,
and led to the choosing of a successor organization.
In any case, the ultimate adjudicators are the local DNS server
operators.
d'accord?
--tony
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