Re: [ga] FW: Urgent: questions for ICANN Board Candidates

[Per Koelle <pk@dk-hostmaster.dk>]

Dear David,

Your statements here are so very true. One could hope that the americans soon
will realise this.

Regards
Per Koelle
.DK

On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, DPF wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 17:44:19 -0700, William X Walsh
> <william@userfriendly.com> wrote:
>
> >Friday, Friday, September 07, 2001, 4:27:30 PM, Joanna Lane wrote:
> >> 3. What level of Board Representation do you think is appropriate for ccTLDs
> >> 6,5, 4 or less?
> >
> >How arrogant to suggest that the ccTLDs should have anywhere NEAR so
> >many board seats allocated to them.
> >
> >That is just plain ludicrous, even if they were deserving of an SO
> >status, which the most certainly are not.
> >
> >The more arrogance I see from the ccTLD community as this debate goes
> >on, the more I think that ICANN should simply present the ccTLDs with
> >contracts, and give them 90 days to work out reasonable negotiations,
> >and then they must sign and comply with the contracts, or face a
> >freeze of their TLD, transfer to a custodial operator, such as APNIC
> >or RIPE, and eventual redelegation.
>
> William - get real.  ICANN if it tried to do that would split the root
> within weeks.  Most ccTLDs have the full support of their Governments
> (well certainly the ones which account for 90% of ccTLD registrations)
> and if ICANN tries to force the ccTLDs then they will quite simply set
> up their own root server and ICANN would have to point to it.
>
> Also the US Government would get so battered by every other Govt that
> they would probably take Root Server A well away from ICANN.  There is
> not a chance in hell DOC would ever agree to redelegate a ccTLD away
> from a registry supported by the local Govt.
>
>
>
> DPF
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