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

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

{was reponded to Jim alone by mistake]

On 22:08 08/08/03, Jim Ayson said:
> At 02:32 PM 8/6/2003 -0400, L. Gallegos wrote:
> 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?

Jim,
I think you should read carefully the RFC 920 which document the then 
prevailing worldwide consensus about the internetting of ARPANET and the 
other local networks and the international public network services. This 
documents is righfully claimed by ICANN (ICP-3) as the root of its legitimacy.

The text is terse but complete - not the ICANN word flood. Youl will see 
the difference between the ccTLD situation and the g/sTLDs irt NIC (IANA). 
Nothing has changed except that quite no ccTLD is fullfiling all its then 
defined obligations as a trustee of the local community (they confuse it 
with a registry copying NSI).

When your trustee dies, you replace it. The same when you do not trust him 
anymore. ccTLDs are not created by IANA, they are compiled by them as 
contact point. You will even discover that we made sure that 
multiorganization TLDs would be easily created. If you want to understand 
where all this comes from (and hence the logic if it: 
http://intlnet.org/docs.htm )

RFC 920 consensus (with its RFC 1591 revision) went very well and was 
respected for a while, until ICANN came, starting with ICP-1, trying to use 
ISO 3166 and the root for many other purposes that the one they had been 
created for by Robert Tréhin in 1977. The RT/BP negociated for the other 
root and TLD administrators are just copying them 
(http://www.boroon.net/pdf_e/rcdc-05-E-RTBP-RootTLDBestPractices.pdf)

jfc