Re: [IFWP] Re: Rule of law vs. consensus

[Kent Crispin]

On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 05:34:59PM -0400, Gene Marsh wrote:
> At 02:05 PM 7/10/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >> there are circa 240 top level domains..... and inlcuding many 
> >> not in the current rootservers.
> >
> >If they are not in the current root servers, they are not top level 
> >domains.  They are private domains.
> 
> Not true.  A top level domain is a functional level of the DNS.

Fine.  If that is the case then the number of top level domains
numbers in the thousands or the hundreds of thousands, and the term
as Gordon used it is mostly meaningless.  Most private networks have
top level domains. 

> >>  ICANN has ar ticially and narrowly 
> >> defined this one such that NSI is the only qualified constituent.
> >
> >Nonsense.  There is an entire ccTLD constituency.
> >
> 
> Yes, but the ccTLD Constituency is NOT included in the gTLD Registry
> constituency.  

Yes, you are right.  I misread it.  The proper response would have 
been "Eh".

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