[governance] How is this operationalised in the US?

[Parminder]

> 
> On 5/7/07, William Drake <drake at hei.unige.ch> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Otherwise, unpaid leadership positions are not "services" in the sense
> of
> > being commercially provisioned for fees, and are not "exported" via any
> > WTO-defined mode of supply.  The rules are intended to prevent US
> companies
> > from selling goods and services to Sudanese entities.
> >
> 
> Wonder if query/response transactions between resolvers and
> nameservers would qualify?  According to a recent report published in
> Cisco's IP Journal
> (http://www.pch.net/resources/papers/infrastructure-distribution/),
> several root nameservers based in US (and outside US) provide
> resolution for the .SD tld.  E.g.,

But doesn't simple providing of Domain Name services for which ICANN
collects fees through registries itself a straight-forward service. (refer
an earlier 'fees versus taxes' discussion on this list) I mean, in legal
terms in US law what else would it qualify for. Of course, ICANN cant be
filing that it provides some kind of governance. Or am I completely
off-track...

Parminder 


> 
> TLD: SD
> 
> Locations:
> HK
> IN
> LU
> NL
> SD
> UK
> UsCA
> UsFL
> UsIL
> UsTX
> UsVA
> ZA
> 
> 
> It appears that Neustar (UltraDNS) is one US based company providing
> this service. See
> http://www.pch.net/resources/papers/infrastructure-distribution/ranked-
> subnets.20070410
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