In any case, the situation for ccTLDs at the moment is that the Govt in question has full say of what happens with any given ccTLD, so you need to direct your question to the Govt of France. if the Govt of Fance wants to eliminate a ccTLD, or make it stop offering its sesrvice, I see very little that anyone can do from outrside the due processes of the Souvereign Nation holder.nnn The current IANA policy is to do what the controlling Govt wants done. I do not see a lot of change that can be made in this business of trying to fix things so that someone in the Internet can manage ccTLDs that are controlled by Souvereign Nations, without taking the case to the UN. I will not object if someone wants to do that, but I do not want to be involved with any such action. Frankly, as I have mentioned several times now, I see no reason why we should even discuss this since it is clearly an internal affair of France. Cheers...\Stef } }John Charles Broomfield wrote: } }<snip> } }> Having said that, despite my disagreement with it, if the French government }> decides to eliminate/redelegate ".gp" and/or ".mq", then that is something }> they are completely in their right to do, just in the same way that if }> tomorrow they decide to shut down ".fr", they have the right to do it. }> They *are* sovereign here in Guadeloupe and in Martinique. }> }> Yours, John Broomfield. }> GP & MQ NIC. } }Who is the most concerned by a TLD removal ? }its registry/"owner" ? }or its SLDs registrants seeing their names vanishing in cyberspace ? } }There should be mecanisms to prevent the arbitrary names removal you }describe. } }Even if no decision was taken by the french gov, yet. } }-- }Jean-Christophe PRAUD - LUDEXPRESS http://www.ludexpress.com }http://www.nicwine.net http://www.irsc.ah.net 3:213 WINE }Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu n'gah Bill R'lyeh Wgah'nagl fhtagn -------- Logged at Wed Sep 16 04:24:53 MET DST 1998 ---------