[ncdnhc-discuss] UN and .un

[James Love]

I agree with Dave Crocker that I am asking ICANN to make a new policy
decision with regard to 2 letter TLDs.  I think in the case of the United
Nations, it is the right thing to do.  I think it is wrong for ICANN to stop
the UN from runnings its own registry.  Maybe the UN will have to solve this
problem at the ISO, as the EU did.  The result now is a bad one.  The UN is
willing and certainly able to run its own tld.  After the OECD saw one of
its .org domains used by a porno site, these organizations understandable
want more control over the TLD they use.  The UN doesn't want to be one of
the .int TLDs.  They want their own TLD, and they should be allowed to run
it.

Jamie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Crocker" <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>
To: "James Love" <james.love at cptech.org>
Cc: "NCDNHC-discuss list" <discuss at icann-ncc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] UN and .un


> At 10:48 AM 4/30/2002 -0400, James Love wrote:
> >I would like the NCC to ask ICANN to reverse policy, and permit the
United
> >Nations to create a .un top level registry.  This was discussed at the UN
> >General Assembly last week.  There is an issue also with the the ISO 3166
> >list of country codes, which currently has a claim on *all* 2 letter TLD
> >codes.
>
> The delegation of 2-letter TLDs to the ISO 3166 table was done so that
IANA
> did not have to make decisions about the nature and specifics of whether
an
> entity was a country.
>
> Your suggestion either moves such a political decision over to ICANN or it
> means that some 2-letter TLDs mean one thing and others will mean
something
> else.  The first expands the scope of ICANN policy making and the latter
> creates some long-term confusion.
>
> d/
>
>
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