[governance] UN controls the country code part of the Internet root, not US

[Carlos A. Afonso]

We have to cope this recurring misinformation -- really need to extend
capacity building on IG to many more people...

Well, the board members of Anatel (the BR telco regulator) excels at
knowing nearly nothing about the Internet or IG, but keep trying to
regulate and issue rules... they could certainly use a basic course on
it, but are too arrogant to concede.

frt rgds

--c.a.

On 12/19/2013 02:42 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> This has been a useful and interesting discussion. 
> Just for the record, however, the header of this thread is completely wrong. 
> The UN does NOT control the "country code part" of the DNS root.
> A UN agency makes up two-letter alphabetic character strings and uniquely assigns them to geographic entities (which are not necessarily "countries" by the way). When or how those codes get into the DNS root and matched to an IP address is entirely in the hands of ICANN/IANA, which means that it ultimately has to be approved by the US government.
> Furthermore, there is no such thing as a "country code part of the Internet root." There is a DNS root, full stop. 
> A country code is a top level domain just like any other, in technical terms.
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] on behalf of Kerry Brown [kerry at kdbsystems.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 2:12 PM
> To: McTim; governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> Subject: RE: [governance] UN controls the country code part of the Internet root, not US
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> I think the people in this discussion are failing to distinguish who "owns"
>>> the ccTLD and the process by which the DNS zone for the ccTLD is
>>> inserted into the root.
>>
>> The above are 2 separate things.  Ideally, ccTLDs are not 'owned"
>> rather they have 'stewards'.
>>
> 
> I agree. That is why I had it in quotes. Couldn't figure out what terminology to use. Stewards is better.
> 
>>
>>  I would argue that most ccTLDs would agree that the
>>> government of the country involved "owns" the ccTLD.
>>
>>
>> I think it is an empirical question.  One that in my experience is about 50-50.
>>
> 
> Given the leaked draft of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement I would say at least some countries believe they can regulate ccTLDs if not own them. I wonder what would happen if a country signed the final TPPA and then the ccTLD operator didn't conform. Would they request a redelegation? It is certainly a confusing area of interest.
> 
> Kerry Brown
> 
> 

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