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- in the ntld doc you should mention rfc1591 and that iana and ntlds should work according to this rfc (in regards to transfer of ownership, etc.) - I think a set of docs need to be created by the ntld WG for any nTLD that is sued. IL has just been sued in the Supreme Court by a cybersquatter. An excellent resource used to be: http://www.digidem.com/legal/domain.html which compares many policies of ntlds - but we need to have something that continues to be maintained. When someone dislikes your authority in your country over your ntld - they will sue you and not iana. For that we need to be prepared.
Hank Nussbacher's comment is certainly valid. Please refer to the famous Haiti case: http://www.mids.org/mn/712/reht.html I am in complete agreement with John Quarterman's remark at the end of above article: "Perhaps regional NICs such as RIPE <URL:http://www.ripe.net/> in Europe and APNIC <URL:http://www.apnic.net/> in Asia Pacific, probably plus the eventual African and ALyC NICs, should consider going further than just funding IANA and assigning IP address space, and proceed to devolve more IANA functions to the regional level." RIPE CENTR could be the body to handle all nTLD matters within the territory of RIPE. Distributed, decentralized authority. In accordance with DNS and IP/AS number assignment. Marcel -------- Logged at Wed Jan 21 17:20:29 MET 1998 ---------