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RE: [ga] Ang Peng Hwa -- Internet Governance: The US position is globally untenable

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  • Subject: RE: [ga] Ang Peng Hwa -- Internet Governance: The US position is globally untenable
  • From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:55:12 -0800 (PST)
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Gene,

If not a treaty, then perhaps we can look at something
like the folks at CENTR have proposed, a fully
automated execution of the IANA function as it
pertains to changes in the ccTLD namespace.  This
could be coupled with some sort of an international
review of redelegation requests.

--- Gene Marsh <gmarsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Danny,
> 
> It appears, then, that we (collectively) are caught
> in between "nasty
> habits" - the U.S. taking (from its position)
> defensive/operational/protective actions and the EU
> (and others) trying to
> wrest control of something they have not,
> historically, developed,
> controlled or managed.
> 
> I'm not sure a treaty is the way to go, though.
> 
> Gene...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Younger [mailto:dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 3:15 PM
> To: Gene Marsh; ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ga] Ang Peng Hwa -- Internet
> Governance: The US position is
> globally untenable
> 
> Hello Gene,
> 
> The U.S. does seem to have this nasty habit of
> waging war or taking "police
> actions", or whatever you choose to call it, on a
> fairly regular basis.  I
> can rightly understand the articulated fear on the
> part of other nations
> that the U.S. might render a portion of the namspace
> unusable, either though
> an action that removes a TLD from the root, or by
> way of taking the
> sponsoring organization out of commission.
> 
> I think that we should be addressing these fears
> with a concrete proposal
> for action.
> 
> What seems reasonable to me is an international
> treaty that would serve to
> allay such concerns... perhaps one that declared
> that no current TLD will
> ever be removed from the root.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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