[governance] Re: ccTLDs and developing countries

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 05:58:46PM +0200,
 Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote 
 a message of 58 lines which said:

> - If your country's network connection to where the nameservers of
> the gTLDs are is very expensive or unreliable or has high latency or
> high packet loss, use of a ccTLD with nameservers within your
> country may be advantageous for technical reasons.

There is a good paper / survey on this issue:

http://www.pch.net/resources/papers/infrastructure-distribution/

"DNS Infrastructure Distribution" by Steve Gibbard

> - Depending on funding, it may be possible to make ccTLD
> registration for local businesses available at prices which are more
> easily affordable for local SMEs than the prices of gTLDs.

It is not only a matter of price but also of the ability to pay in
local currency (US dollars can be difficult to obtain in many
countries) and with local means (cash, because not everyone in the
world has a credit card).

Also, for the country as a whole, paying a local company (instead of
an US-based gTLD registry) means less outgoing flow of hard currency.
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