Re: [ga] Re: ICANN before the US Senate...

[Jim Ayson <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:32 PM 8/6/2003 -0400, L. Gallegos wrote:

> > 1) Who will decide of the redelegation of a ccTLD? Especially in
> > complicated cases like a fight between two local groups? This is not a
> > clerical process, it is a political one, by essence.
>
> If an existing manager is doing its job, there would be no change.  A
> local fight doesn't change the rules.  If a government nationalizes
> private industry and takes over businesses, there is little or no choice
> since governments may do this whether we like it or not.  At that point,
> the "local group" no longer exists and the government prevails.

Interesting discussion. What if members of the local Internet community 
believes the existing ccTLD manager is not doing a good job - and the local 
government doesn't give a hoot about Internet issues? Where does the 
community go to air its grievances?

Also in the case of the number of individuals who were appointed by Postel 
to run ccTLDs (and there are still a number of them), what happens if one 
of them gets hit by a bus? Who decides who the new ccTLD manager is?