Robert Guerra wrote:
From: "Dirk Krischenowski | dotBERLIN" <krischenowski@dotberlin.de>
I coming back to a posting of Michael Leibrandt from Dec 2, where Michael wrote:
"... The parliament of Berlin has voted down the .berlin proposal with a majority decision. Does anybody think that such a local decision should be ignored by an ICANN ALAC? ..."
OK, enlighten me. Why is the local political handling of one specific TLD the business of ALAC? Why should the global at-large community (or even EURALO) get involved in what seems to me like a purely local issue?
Or ... is there a greater issue regarding city-based TLDs, which appear to have characteristics of both ccTLDs and gTLDs but in a pure sense may be neither? As city names are not trademarked, is it even within the right of Berlin (or any other) city government to approve or deny city-named TLDs? As such, why should ALAC care whether the city government of Berlin supports .berlin, _especially_ when the debate seems driven more by politics than technical or practical issues. - Evan