Re: [ga] is ICANN or is ICANN not?
Roberto Gaetano wrote: What should, in your opinion, IANA do in case ISO decides to reallocate SU, or any one of the codes that have been discontinued and moved to 3166-3? ICANN should strive to insulate itself from the political aspect of recognizing what is and what is not chunk of national sovereignty. For ICANN do to other than to follow, exactly, what is in the appropriate ISO list (3166-1?) would be for ICANN to usurp the authority of the ISO, causing ICANN to become embroiled in the political questions of recognition or non-recognition. Else ICANN ought to be very frank and say that it uses the ISO lists merely as suggestions. So if a name, even a big one, falls out of the ISO list, it should vanish from the root zone file. Countries and country codes don't vanish instantly or without notice. And as long as people who build their names in ccTLDs are potentially impermanent, they can adjust their actions and expectations accordingly. Similarly, ICANN should not try to engage in life support for any TLD of any kind - otherwise ICANN would find itself even more deeply sunk into the dangerous swamp of economic and social engineering than it is already. The only caveat to this is that there are a large number of people, myself included, who live in the legacy world of the days before ICANN, even before Versign, and even before Network Solutions, in which we had but one choice, .com, and have never had the opportunity to make a choice among a variety of domain name products with diverse characteristics. --karl--
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