[ga] Re: [Politech] Root server operator says he'd ignore Bush administration overreaching on domains [econ]

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Declan and all,

Very interesting reading indeed.  One has to wonder who works for
whom and whom is in charge, ICANN or DOC/NTIA?

Declan McCullagh wrote:

> Following is excerpted from a Q&A with Axel Pawlik, a very interesting
> fellow who is a managing director at RIPE. It's a regional address
> registry and operates the "K" root server, which along with the other
> root servers maintains the list of top-level domains.
>
> Axel's views are noteworthy because the root servers effectively serve
> as a check on the power of the Bush administration, which said this
> summer that it wants to be the only one to "authoriz[e] changes or
> modifications" to the list of top-level domains:
> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/USDNSprinciples_06302005.htm
>
> -Declan
>
> ---
>
> http://news.com.com/Root+servers+The+real+Net+power/2008-1028_3-5961465.html
>
> [...snip...]
>
> Q: What would happen if the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
> Numbers (ICANN) decided to approve a new top-level domain--say .xxx--and
> the Bush administration decided to veto it?
>
> Axel Pawlik: In that case, I don't know what the root server operators
> would do. Likely they would publish whatever is approved by ICANN. There
> is a difference between the content and the publication. We're only
> publishers of the root zone file. We take it from IANA (a function of
> ICANN) and we publish it.
>
> Q: Let's say the Bush administration accuses Syria of fostering
> terrorism and decides to invade. And it demands that ICANN remove
> Syria's .sy domain from the Internet. What would you do?
>
> Axel Pawlik: I don't believe that the U.S. government would be that
> stupid. Seriously, this has never come up. But I am quite certain that
> the Internet community at large would not like that decision and I'm not
> sure it would be carried through.
>
> [...snip...]
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