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

[Keith Davidson]

On 14/12/2013 8:12 a.m., Kerry Brown wrote:
>> -----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.

The redelegation request would require the approval of the local 
Internet community, or require the local Government to pass into law a 
methodology of taking over the ccLTD (and the ccTLD exhausting its legal 
rights to not hand over the ccTLD). No simple task either way.

Cheers

Keith

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