Re: [wg-review] ccTLD vs DNSO vs ICANN vs GAC

[Michael Sondow <msondow@iciiu.org>]

> YJ Park wrote:

> It is interesting that DNSO/ICANN has so far only made policy relating
> to gTLDs.  A key question will be whether ICANN will attempt to make
> global policy for ccTLDS (personally a silly thing to do and quite
> possibly impossible to implement).

This is quite untrue, as anyone who has been following the
controversies between, for example, Dot CX and the Australian
Commonwealth, are aware. Indeed, ICANN's major offensive at the
moment is to gain hegemony over the ccTLD registries by means of
unilateral dicta from national governments, basing their claims on
the GAC Principles.

If YJ Park is not cognizant of this, Peter de Blanc certainly should
be. And it would be useful if the members of this were likewise
aware of it. After all, of what use is the work of this WG if it is
not integrated into the present efforts of ICANN to control the
ccTLDs, which account for a majority of domain names outside the
U.S.?

M.S.
ICIIU.ORG
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