ICANN, the group charged with overseeing the Internet's addressing system, has submitted a report to the US Department of Commerce in which it argues that the time has come to end US oversight. In October 2006, the Department of Commerce and ICANN signed the Joint Project Agreement, a three-year pact that extended Commerce's oversight of the body, while leaving open the possibility that the group would become independent as soon as April of this year. In the new report, ICANN argues that it has already met the requirements for independence and should therefore be freed from oversight.
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Member since:2005-07-06
exactly.
but if you look at it, the usa government and usa corps seems to treat those as usa domains.
tmobile.com? a usa customers page.
att.com? same.
amazon.com? same.
microsoft.com? not exactly, but close.
also, most of the reasoning for not letting icann go seems to reolve around the creation of the .xxx domain.
if a non-national top level domain was not a option, its nearest equivalent would be a .xxx.us or .xxx.iran and so on.
each nation would be free to decides in their own corner of the world, just like they have been doing for ages on other topics.
its the existence of the non-national TLDs, and usa treating them as their property, thats causing most of the noise. remove them and one remove much of the reason to have icann under usa oversight.
hell, one remove much of the need of icann i suspect...
Member since:2006-10-12
That would include a whole lot of restructuring. .com, .net, .org, etc are all non-national TLDs. What you suggest would include dropping those as well.
Well, yes. Or rather, you phase them out over time—after the cut-off you stop accepting new registrations.
Most companies wouldn't care—they already register all the local variants of their names in the areas which they trade (to stop squatters getting hold of them).
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2005-12-02
"drop the non-national TLDs."
That would include a whole lot of restructuring. .com, .net, .org, etc are all non-national TLDs. What you suggest would include dropping those as well.