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Study on Governments and ccTLDs
posted by tbyfield on Monday December 01 2003, @06:35AM

Anonymous writes " Governments and Country-Code TLDs: A Global Survey , a global survey of governments and their domains, by Professor Michael Geist is out today. [Quoting Mr. Geist's excellent "Internet Law News,"] 'The study, which covered 56 countries from every global region and a broad cross-section of developed and developing countries and was conducted jointly with the ITU, finds that virtually every government that responded to the survey either manages, retains direct control, or is contemplating formalizing its relationship with its ccTLD.'"

One week ahead of the World Summit on the Information Society, the study suggests that the real debate is over how government is going to get involved, not whether it will. The Toronto Star provides further coverage. "

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Governmental blindness is amazing
by KarlAuerbach on Wednesday December 03 2003, @08:55AM (#12713)
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It is amazing how blind governments are in all of this - they focus on ccTLDs and ignore the fact that a ccTLD is worthless without a working IP address allocation system or operational DNS root servers.

Governments should recognize that ICANN, despite many noises to the contrary, has left the IP address allocation system and DNS root server operations uncontrolled by anyone who is accountable to the public.

ccTLDs are easy to comprehend - which is probably why governments have focused on 'em - but they are to a large extent only a byproduct of those systems that are being ignorred.

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