Noah Thanks for the comments. Some of your points are subjective and i will leave for others to hopefully comment.
> I am not on most of those other forums, however the fact that the debate > doesn't seem to take off may also be indicative of the fact there is no > active interest in changing the status quo. This may very well stem from > the > fact that it works and there is no reason anyone can see to fix something > that works. Exactly the attitude that has kept us back. "The bicycle gets me to town so why do i need to work hard and get a car" > > On the other hand, the .com, .org and other TLDs are working fine under > commercial management. I am not a fan of collective arrangements and I > have > to say that the fact that the UIXP has not exactly prospered under that > model > makes me queasy about putting something even more critical under such > management. Fortunately the UIXP tends to run itself with minimal input > from > the stakeholders, but the same certainly does not apply to the ccTLD. > The UIXP has run for over 4 years todate and the traffic passing through it has increased. This is run and maintained by stakeholders. If you keep in the loop you will know that we are working on a number of things like upgrade the infrastructure you should see a proposed plan in a few days. We are making plans other plans that will be on the list in the next few days like introduction of a root server. > And create a new sinkhole where the funds disappear into and the next > thing > you know, you need yet another commission of inquiry. > The sinkholes are results of the don't care attitude. Unfortunately it might be naive but i'm still one of those who beleive that public entities need to be accountable to the population and we have people who can serve honestly with dedication. >> >> For continuity CFI would be automatically awarded the first 5 year >> contract. However i do suggest that in a period of two years we would > look >> at spliting the tlds into .co.ug .or.ug .ac.ug. To create an > environment >> that helps the entire market we would then look at having other >> organisations bid to offer services like for example .or.ug. > > > Currently as far as I am aware, those splits you are talking about already > exist. I see domain names like one2net.co.ug, ec.or.ug, parliament.go.ug, > makerere.ac.ug, mak.ac.ug ... etc What more splitting are you talking > about? > > Even with the current situation where they are split, I doubt whether each > generates enough business to make sense of parcelling it out to yet > another > company. > Noah My point exactly your philosohy is there is no need or requirement and my position is we have not put in that efort. Examples show that this works and we have UK and also .ZA an initial set of six second-level domains was created when the .ZA top-level domain was first established. They are AC.ZA, CO.ZA, GOV.ZA, MIL.ZA, NET.ZA and ORG.ZA. This list mirrored the structure used for the .UK domain at the time. Other second level domains were added over the years at the request of the communities to be served by those domains and immediately delegated to a representative of the served community. The delegated entities include organisations, companies and individuals. The following table lists the administrators of the ten sub-domains currently accepting new registrations. AC.ZA delegated to Duncan Martin, Tertiary Education Network (TENET) CITY.ZA delegated to Pieter Geldenhuys, UNISA Graduate School of Business Leadership CO.ZA delegated to UniForum SA EDU.ZA delegated to Theuns Laubscher, ICG GOV.ZA delegated to Sean White, Sean Greven, Karl Hohls, SITA LAW.ZA delegated to Law Society of the Cape of Good Hope MIL.ZA delegated to Department of Defense NOM.ZA delegated to Mike Jensen ORG.ZA delegated to Internet Solutions SCHOOL.ZA delegated to SchoolNet SA Each of these administrators operates the database for that SLD and provides the related registry services. (To a significant extent, the administrators also currently determine policy for these sub-domains.) _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
