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The ICANN procedures are cute. They are not that easy to understand,
follow and eventually comply with. However, they time to time, ultimately
permit some transparency in order to show that it was possible not to pay
ICANN for something small when you can get "samething" big for
free (but without the ICANN legalities).<br><br>
In the Pew gTLD Program case, I made an effort to try to save ICANN
millions. You will find it at the URL
<a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/new-gtld-applicant-support-handbook/msg00013.html" eudora="autourl">
http://forum.icann.org/lists/new-gtld-applicant-support-handbook/msg00013.html</a>
.<br><br>
I hope this demonstrate enough that ICANN and the US Governments are not
crooks: <br>
- they only did not "underline" the full truth, as every good
sales, at it results from the small prints<br>
- however, and I am the proof, they made nothing to prevent the truth
from being published before the gTLD candidates send their requests and
checks. <br><br>
The truth is that:<br><br>
1. there is no technical difference between gTLDs and IDNgTLDs except non
contractual foreign software application (punycode family of alogithms)
TLD registrant cannot control.<br><br>
2. ICANN uses a "de facto" situation to register TLDs that can
be "de jure" (RFCs) replicated in 65,535 other DNS top level
registries.<br><br>
3. TLDs may use protected IRNs (International Root Names) by WIPO or ISO.
The use of a string as a TLD does not protect it as an IRN. <br><br>
4. ICANN stays at the IETF Internet end to end layers under the ignorance
of the US Government. This is obsolete: IETF RFCs have already
transparently made inteligent users to scale to fringe to fringe
Internet+.
<a href="http://iutf.org/wiki/Internet+_architectural_Framework" eudora="autourl">
http://iutf.org/wiki/Internet%2B_architectural_Framework</a>. <br><br>
This makes clear that the ICANN Pew gTLD Program brings to its gTLD
registrants is a very worked-out screen of paper to sign and an entry in
the DNS CLASS "IN" (ICANN/NTIA) every of us can replicate,<br>
- in full right: in 255 other CLASSes <br>
- at least in test: in 65.375 other ones. <br><br>
If this was plainly stated in the Agreement, this would be perfectly
honnest. As it is not, Courts may have to decide.<br><br>
However, in favor of ICANN:<br><br>
1. my mail was published by ICANN within the Pew gTLD Program dedicated
part, on a public forumeveryone could read.<br><br>
2. RFC are publicly published and TLD would be Managers should know them
to correctly operates the service they plan to sell. After several RFCs
over the last 29 years of DNS operations,
<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5395">RFC 5395</a> states anew:
"DNS CLASSes have been little used but constitute another dimension
of the DNS distributed database. In particular, there is no necessary
relationship between the name space or root servers for one data CLASS
and those for another data CLASS. The same DNS NAME can have completely
different meanings in different CLASSes. The label types are the same,
and the null label is usable only as root in every CLASS. As global
networking and DNS have evolved, the IN, or Internet, CLASS has dominated
DNS use. [] The current CLASS assignments [] are as follows: <br><br>
This simply means that for each ".abcd" top-zone IDNgTLD paid
K$ 185++ to ICANN, there can be 65,535 other ".abcd" top-zones
in the DNS. Some will be immediatel because the IUTF is going to accept a
few CLASSes for family protection, customer documentation, testing of
third party applications, etc.<br><br>
jfc<br>
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