Re: [ga-roots] ICANN Policy -- revised version

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

Milton Mueller wrote:

>
> If entrepreneurs and other organizations acting independently can
> establish recongizable claims to operate TLDs that might go into
> the ICANN root, then ICANN is required to act only as a technical
> coordinator; i.e., to ensure a consistent root zone.
> ICANN wants to have all the power: it wants to announce when new TLDs
> will be created, what names they will use, what policies they will enforce,
> and who will get them.

And yet ANOTHER reason why ICANN must be pulled out of business and
politics and shoved back into its purely technical role.

Bill Lovell

>
>
> >>> Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> 06/18/01 06:37PM >>>
> So let's look.  What precisely are your criteria for a TLD which
> should belong to the zoo of "valid" TLDs, as opposed to
> misconfigured intranets?  What precisely is your criterion for a TLD
> which can be taken seriously?  Just that this TLD made it into some
> alt.root's root zone?
>
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