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

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Dear Paul,
I was joking as there is a funny middle case possible for the ICANN as
far as uk/gb is concerned. 

IMHO most of all, if ICANN engaged such a move the result would be ...
such that I would really want them to try....  liberty sometimes
calls for an indepedence war.  Seems WXW challenges you in some kind
of tea party against the ICANN Dominance...

Jefsey

On 14:32 09/09/01, Paul Cotton said:
> It seems
> both Jefsey and Kent misunderstood that I was referring to the commercial
> impact and not as to whether it was possible via technical measures or
> policy.
>  
> Whilst it may well be possible to implement .gb
> via existing policy, it would still be seen as just another non
> ".uk" tld aimed at the uk market.  Now that .uk has
> reached nearly 3 million registrations, it is firmly ingrained in the
> minds of the UK domestic market (thanks to collective weight of
> advertising by companies who use a .uk domain) - in much the same way
> that .com is within the US.
>  
> The notion that if there were a redelegation of
> .uk that offered free mirroring upon request also fails to take into
> account that .uk is heavily used by small businesses targetting their
> domestic market.  The "if it aint broke don't fix it"
> mentality prevails heavily in that sector.  As such, if the
> government did anything that caused confusion or additional
> administration for no material gain to the users themselves, then it
> would meet with very vocal opposition. 
> The UK government is committed to increasing
> the speed of online take-up and usage to help boost the flagging economy
> and so for them to do anything that would impede that process (which a
> redelegation would certainly do) is simply not going to
> happen.
>  
> It is worth remembering that Nominet is a non
> profit organization which is steered by its members, meaning their
> policies reflect what the ISP's want - so the ISP's would most likely be
> the ones to lose control if .uk was redelegated which again is not
> something that would make sense for the UK government (or ICANN for that
> matter).
>  
> Regards
>  
> Paul Cotton