[governance] Pulling the plug on .mil

Adam Peake ajp at glocom.ac.jp
Wed Nov 9 10:12:48 EST 2005


Do any of the US TLDs have registry or any other agreements with ICANN?

EDU and .US were redelegated while ICANN was "in charge".

Adam



At 5:23 AM -0800 11/9/05, Danny Younger wrote:
>One of the fears expressed by many parties to this
>discussion has been that current arrangements allow
>for the possibility of a TLD (such as a ccTLD) being
>unplugged from the root.
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>Just as I am sure that the U.S. would take all steps
>necessary to remove even the remotest of possibilities
>that the .mil domain could one day be removed from the
>root, so too can I understand the passion of other
>sovereign states with respect to protecting their own
>namespace.
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>What is needed is a device to ensure a mutual level of
>comfort -- I am suggesting a multinational treaty that
>ensures that no TLD will ever be removed from the
>root.  While this might potentially limit future U.S.
>military options, I view this as a reasonable
>trade-off to start making the peace between the U.S.
>and the other nations that are a party to this
>discussion.
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>I would hope that the USG would concur.
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