[governance] Re: GeoTLD

[Dan Krimm]

At 11:51 AM +0100 1/3/08, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 11:19:42PM -0800,
> Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> wrote
> a message of 75 lines which said:
>
>> (By-the-way, it may be a bit ironic to consider the relative sizes
>> and recognition between the city in which you live, Syracuse, New
>> York, as compared to its classic namesake - between the two, which
>> might have a better claim to TLD status?)
>
>Wikipedia already had the discussion, a tough one:
>
>http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2006-July/027186.html


Why should either/any city have *exclusive* claim to the geoTLD?

Wikipedia's format requires some choice or disambiguation, but there is no
a priori technical reason that I can see that a TLD must be bound by the
same logic.

I understand that the registries and probably IPC and BC at ICANN likely
would not want to mandate nondiscrimination policies for gTLD registries.
But that's a political obstacle (and an issue of ICANN's governance
structure), not a technical or logical one.

Just perhaps, not *all possible/feasible/profitable* business models are
necessarily *appropriate* for TLD registries?  Why shouldn't ICANN have
some component of anti-trust dynamics in its regulation of registries (even
if it may be exempt from specific anti-trust laws in the US, which may not
be entirely clear)?

ICANN ought to "do the right thing" even if some higher authority is not
forcing it to do so, yes?

Dan
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