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    Re:ccTLDs are a country's property
    by vbertola on Friday January 17 2003, @12:16AM (#10982)
    User #3435 Info | http://bertola.eu.org/
    I've been spending the last weeks also in struggling against the Italian government's proposal to gain stronger control over .it (*) - so you can bet that I'm not so enthusiast about the fact that a national government should have the last word on a ccTLD. The best idea would be that a ccTLD is owned by its users, or its "Internet community" - but how do you define them or collate them into a single formal legal entity?

    But anyway, while I understand the other theory (and I'm not saying that it's wrong from a legal standpoint - I'm not a lawyer), I'm saying that it's unacceptable from a *political* standpoint. While it could be good if there was an (open and fair) central "appeal" authority that ensures that the local manager acts democratically and in a proper manner, the US government or an US corporation cannot qualify for this role. If US and ICANN really insisted on this, I guess that in a few years most of the other geopolitical entities in the world would start their own roots.

    Of course all of this derives from the present crisis of our planet's political structure, that is unable to manage worldwide issues openly and fairly, especially those related to information and immaterial properties - but that's quite a bigger discussion...

    Perhaps things could be different if the ccTLD database was "owned" by an international UN agency, not controlled by any government? I'm not saying it has necessarily to be an already existing one :-)

    (*) you can read more here [nexus.org] - we were even featured here on icannwatch [icannwatch.org].
    --vb. (Vittorio Bertola)
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