Let them.
Let Paul womey and his band of merry pranksters have the two letter
tld-space; they're hard to remember anyway, and this keeps all the
control freaks nicely tucked away in one place.
Then develop the three letter country code space, or, just use the
country name.
At 04:46 PM 5/1/00 -0400, Michael Sondow wrote:
>In case anyone is unaware, or has forgotten, the GAC has made the
>following insidious proposals:
>
>http://www.icann.org/gac/gac-cctldprinciples-23feb00.htm
>
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>Principles for Delegation and Administration of ccTLDs Presented by
>Governmental Advisory Committee, 23 February 2000
>
>4.4 The delegee should recognise that ultimate public policy
>authority over the relevant ccTLD rests with the relevant government
>or public authority.
>
>7.1 Where a communication between the relevant government or public
>authority and the delegee is in place, when ICANN is notified by the
>relevant government or public authority that the delegee has
>contravened the terms of the communication, or the term of the
>designation has expired, ICANN should act with the utmost promptness
>to reassign the delegation in coordination with the relevant
>government or public authority.
>
>7.4 With respect to future delegations or reassignment of
>delegations, ICANN should delegate the administration of a ccTLD
>only to an organisation, enterprise or individual that has been
>designated by the relevant government or public authority.
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>
>As numerous people have pointed out, since many ccTLDs were
>developed entirely or predominantly through private enterprise, the
>GAC principles are tantamount to a nationalization of the
>registries, something that one might expect in countries undergoing
>a socialist or communist revolution, or perhaps in authoritarian
>oligarchies like Australia, but hardly in the world of cyberspace.
>
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>Michael Sondow I.C.I.I.U. http://www.iciiu.org
>Tel. (718)846-7482 Fax: (603)754-8927
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