On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 10:08:48PM -0400, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
wrote:
>
> FWIW, I have always read the bylaws exactly the same way.
>
> The issues that matter strike me as completely political and not a bylaws
> issue. Would ICANN have the spine to stand up to a strong demand by
> governments that, e.g., a ccTLD be reassigned?
My understanding is that IANA has already set a precedent in that
case -- ccTLDs have been reassigned under such circumstances. [I
don't recall the details -- I think it was Jamaica or Haiti that was
reassigned under pressure from the associated government. It was
painful for those who were registered with the old registry...]
In any case, many people believe that a government has fairly strong
rights vis a vis choice of which registry runs the associated ccTLD,
so this example is perhaps not a good one. Government policies
concerning encryption might be more interesting.
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