[governance] [liberationtech] Chinese preparing for a "Autonomous Internet" ?

[Daniel Pimienta]

>The historical (and RFC 1591 documented) policy in these cases was 
>for IANA to refuse to do the requested action until the parties 
>could reach consensus.
Well, this is not what IANA did in the case of the Haitian ccTLD 
(.ht) and this wrong decision caused Haiti to remain without working 
national domain for many years (from 1997 to after 2004, date of the 
redelegation...) and surprised many experts.
Details and references in 
http://funredes.org/english/carpeta.php3/temaid/17 (1997 page! 
Internet archeology... :-) ).
Redelegation by ICANN: http://www.iana.org/reports/2004/ht-report-13jan04.html
But this is another and old story...


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