On 5/10/09 2:58 PM, "Garth Bruen at KnujOn" <gbruen@knujon.com> wrote:
So given statements like:
"Why do you think governments have free reign over their ccTLDs?"
"we only approve delegation and redelegation requests to meet a number of criteria."
and the with policy process your describe, national sovereignty is not the ultimate authority of a ccTLD. Rather ICANN is. It sounds like an organizational map might put ccTLDs under ICANN on the same level as registries.
Within certain parameters (like requiring the sponsoring organisation to be based in the country), the ultimate authority over a ccTLD should be its local Internet community. ICANN's due diligence is focussed on whether a submitted request appropriately reflects that.
Is there documentation that demonstrates interests of the local Internet community in the case of .MD/Moldova?
The redelegation report is at http://www.iana.org/reports/2003/md-report-22oct03.html kim