[ifwp] Re: questions about national sovereignty

1999-02-01 Thread jeff Williams
Stef and all,   It appears that from the content of comments made by Esther and others from the Berkman Center that your worst fears are indeed the direction in which the ICANN is wanting to drive the direction of DNS management and there registry/registrar budding industry towards, that of a cen

[ifwp] Re: questions about national sovereignty

1999-01-31 Thread Einar Stefferud
Looking at this in terms of a much larger question -- Is ICANN planning to apply this stuff about contracting with registrars to service ICANN contracted registries to the entire DNS industry? That is, do all new gTLD registries have to pattern their business model after that tof the NSI monopol

[ifwp] Re: questions about national sovereignty

1999-01-31 Thread Gordon Cook
Well Esther, since you already got jumped on for the eroneous assumption you made in the message below, I will let someone else do so the second time. However I note that you assume that you will have contracts with country code TLD administrators... suppose a country code administrator decided