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

[Roland Perry]

In message <20110202161211.GA9858 at nic.fr>, at 17:12:11 on Wed, 2 Feb 
2011, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at internatif.org> writes
>On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 12:26:07PM +0000,
> Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote
> a message of 38 lines which said:
>
>> I thought that's what a lot of people were trying to avoid (the
>> capture of cyberspace by one intergovernmental body).
>
>While at this time it is captured by one monogovernmental body.

There's more to the Internet than gTLDs - even if the word "capture" is 
appropriate here, which I doubt. It's a historical accident.

>> The place of business of registrants is usually quite independent
>> from that of the registry
>
>So what? The fact that the registrant was hosted in Spain did not
>change anything here. Afilias/PIR yielded because they are US
>corporations, whatever the place of business of the registrant is.

I was responding to a suggestion that generic TLDs were "limited to" US 
Corporations. Which I interpreted as "US registrants".
-- 
Roland Perry
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