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There is absolutely no way that IANA's role as the pointer to ccTLDs in the root can be done without politics. You can't say "this person is that country's representative" without politics.

You can defer the decision to someone else (probably the UN, possibly the ITU). Even that is a political decision because many countries have internal politics that decide who gets to speak in the UN or the ITU.

If IANA was run cleanly separate from ICANN, this would not be nearly as much of a problem as it has become. ICANN's staff have made IANA an enforcement arm, and that in turn has made ccTLDs wary of IANA.

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Re:There will always be politics with IANA's DNS r
by tbyfield (reversethis-{moc.xinap} {ta} {dleifybt}) on Tuesday March 04 2003, @08:39AM (#11267)
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There is absolutely no way that IANA's role as the pointer to ccTLDs in the root can be done without politics.

of course; but you're arguing aginst a straw man. CENTR said IANA "must not deal with policy," and i said ICANN "has insistently politicized -- or, more accurately 'policized' -- its conduct of the IANA function." the point isn't some imaginary apolitical realm; rather, it's that the IANA function should be conducted as minimally and neutrally as possible. the fact that that conduct can't be 'pure' in some platonic sense hardly justifies ICANN's abuse of its authority to pursue its parohical agenda.

cheers,
t

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