[governance] Re: Why the unilateral US control over generic TLD is dangerous

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 01:27:09PM +0300,
 McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 33 lines which said:

> What is the solution then? A treaty is not going to fly, no country
> is going to give up their sovereignty over ccTLDs or com0panies
> (registries/registrars) that run in their country.

Correct analysis in the short term (in the long term, as Parminder
said, if we believe there is no international governance possible for
the Internet, we could disband this mailing list immediately). 

A possible improvment would be to have big generic TLD in several
countries (today, they are all managed by US-based corporations).

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