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

[Carlos A. Afonso]

The ISO codes were adopted as any other could have been adopted, not by
a treaty or formal agreement with ISO. Milton is correct.

--c.a.

On 12/19/2013 03:10 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> Milton,
> 
> On Dec 19, 2013, at 8:42 AM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Not entirely.
> 
> ICANN/IANA does not make unrequested changes.
> 
> In the past (before the root zone automation software), anyone could request a change to a TLD. ICANN/IANA would vet the change request, ensuring the request came from an entity authorized to request the change (that is, it came from one of the TLD administrators) and that it made sense syntactically and technically, then seek confirmation from all the administrators (technical and administrative) for the TLD.  Once all parties approved the change request, it would be sent on to NTIA for authorization and then on to Verisign for implementation.
> 
> I believe the root zone automation software now limits who can request changes to the TLD administrators (that is, the folks who have log in credentials to the system), but not positive. My understanding is that everything else in the process is essentially the same.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Yes. From the perspective of IANA staff, a TLD is a TLD.
> 
> Regards,
> -drc
> 

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