Re: [ga] More ALAC Follies

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vittorio and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
stakeholders/users,

It seems given your response to Danny's questions, that the subject line
of this thread was and remains appropriate.  That's unfortunate and
sad for stakeholders/users.

Vittorio Bertola wrote:

> Danny Younger ha scritto:
> > I see that the ALAC has accepted yet another ccTLD
> > manager as an At-Large Structure -- the Internet Users
> > Society Niue.  Their application states:  "The Society
> > is the cctld manager of .nu and is funded by .NU
> > Domain Ltd the marketing arm of IUS-N".
> >
> > Earlier, the ALAC had approved the application for the
> > Sudan Internet Society which is the ccTLD manager for
> > the .sd domain.
> >
> > Sorry, but I'm afraid I no longer understand the
> > definition of "at-large"... perhaps someone on the
> > ALAC can clear up my confusion...
> >
> > It seems to me that logic would dictate that a ccTLD
> > manager would choose to affiliate himself with the
> > ccNSO, and that noncommercial organizations would
> > choose to join the NCUC.
>
> The State of Niue has 2'156 inhabitants in total. It seems natural to me
> that those few who constitute the local Internet community also run the
> ccTLD.
> I think that in countries where the Internet is still at its embryonic
> state of development it is very hard to draw a line between "the users
> community" and "the technical community". It would have been much
> different if we had received an application from, say, the ccTLD manager
> for Italy :-)
> --
> vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----
> http://bertola.eu.org/  <- Prima o poi...

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