Hi all,<br><br>I have seen in previous posts this reference to the possible collision between .cym and the three letter ISO code for Cameroon. Did not chime in then as the thread had continued on another topic, but I am a bit puzzled here. <br>
<br>If there is a problem, it's with the Cayman island (3-letter iso code CYM), not Cameroon. As the Cayman islands are a UK territory, the relevant national authority is the same as the Wales proposal, isn't it ? Anyway, don't they already have a 2-letter ccTLD (kY is the 2-letter ISO 3166 code) ?<br>
<br>The issue may be real (there may be cases of possible collision) but apparently the example does not work. Unless I'm mistaken which is possible given that it was a rapid check. I may have just exposed my insufficient knowledge ;-)<br>
<br>I suppose the possible collisions will only appear in due course as other proposals will be put forward. <br><br>Best<br><br>Bertrand<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Roland Perry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roland@internetpolicyagency.com">roland@internetpolicyagency.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">In message <<a href="mailto:76f819dd0910151202y2a0ac3bbna59f0435a6a21558@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">76f819dd0910151202y2a0ac3bbna59f0435a6a21558@mail.gmail.com</a>>, at 12:02:43 on Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Paul Lehto <<a href="mailto:lehto.paul@gmail.com" target="_blank">lehto.paul@gmail.com</a>> writes<div class="im">
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Roland, you dropped out of the debate about democracy and ICANN,<br>
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I had said everything I wanted to.<div class="im"><br>
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Is this your hypothetical question about Cameroon and such?<br>
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Yes. And while it's hypothetical today, I'm 99% sure that such a decision will need to be made in the foreseeable future. Two groups of people are on a collision course!<br>
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[I have no special interest in either the Cameroons, or Wales, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">but it's an elegant example to highlight the difficulties than can arise in a congested name-space</span>]<div class="im">
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If so, please understand that even if you proved your apparent "case" that there are difficulties of implementation in your (straw man) version of democracy, it does not follow whatsoever that any old thing, most especially an un-democratic any old thing, can take the place of some version of democracy.<br>
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Which is why I asked what precise form of democracy *you* recommend to resolve the 'collision' I described.<div class="im"><br>
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It would be more enlightening for you to answer the question:<br>
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Do you believe any subset of the people, whether "experts" or owners,<br>
have the right to define and/or control or regulate the common life of<br>
people on the Internet?<br>
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I'm trying to discover what subset of the people *you* would recommend made decisions to resolve 'collisions' like the one I described.<br>
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Or if it's "all of the people", how would you organise a ballot on this 'collision', that would avoid the drawbacks I mentioned in my original question.<br><font color="#888888">
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Roland Perry<br>
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