Once upon a time, there was the DNSO. Then the ccTLD community decided that they were something different, that they were related to local authorities and communities, and therefore they needed to play with a different set of rules, therefore they needed a different regime, hence the decision to have a separate Supporting Organization. In a perfect world, one of the two will happen: either the ccTLDs have their raison d'être in the local community and under the local authority, and hence they will not be subject to the general ICANN rules but to the local jurisdiction, or they are operating in the global market, and therefore they will be subject to the same rules that the other global players will have. This said, since the horses have already left the barn, and since we all acknowledge that this world is far from perfect, we should not be crying foul if a ccTLD operates as if it was a gTLD (but without the constraints thereof). However, as I have tried to explain to the GAC in many occasions when I was on the Board, we need to have a mechanism by which the global community is not impacted by a possible misbehaviour of a ccTLD. The example I often make is the wildcard, that was stopped in .com because Verisign had a contract with ICANN, and that was not stopped in .cm, because this was not the case. The wildcard is just one example. We should not forget that potentially more problems will come with IDNs, and to have "global" IDN-TLDs run under a different regime and set of rules then the "simil-cc" (fast track or not) IDN-TLDs is a serious risk. IMHO, ALAC should demand that user protection is guaranteed against misbehaviour by operators not under contract with ICANN. Cheers, Roberto
-----Original Message----- From: at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Avri Doria Sent: Friday, 30 July 2010 18:17 To: At-Large Worldwide Subject: Re: [At-Large] .CO user confusion?
On 30 Jul 2010, at 17:22, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
I don't see what the fuss is about. The faster that the world sees there's nothing magically special about ".com" the better for all of us,
i agree on almost all accounts.
i guess i worry about what is effectively a gTLD not being governed under the same rules as the rest of the gTLDs.
perhaps when we move into the age of Category TLDs based on their type, we may be able to take a new look at ccTLDs that are not restricted to the people (local or diaspora) of that country and treat them as being members of the general category subject to whatever rules (and protections) that are applicable to that category at that point in time..
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