[governance] How is this operationalised in the US?

[McTim]

On 5/8/07, Brenden Kuerbis <bnkuerbi at syr.edu> wrote:
>
> On 5/7/07, William Drake <drake at hei.unige.ch> wrote:
>
> >
>
> Wonder if query/response transactions between resolvers and
> nameservers would qualify?


no, neither would IANA "service" qualify (Wolfgang's query)

  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.,
>
>
> 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


If you think that UltraDNS/ICANN/IANA are in violation, then the IGP (and
anyone who runs a website viewed by Sudanese folk) is probably in violation.

As for Parminder's query, looking at:
http://www.icann.org/cctlds/sd/sponsorship-agmt-20dec02.htm
One sees that the Sudanese ISOC pays a "contribution" and not a fee to
ICANN.

In other words, you are all off-track.  It can't be "operationalised" in the
IANA/ICANN context.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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