Documentation suggestions (was: RIPE 29: reminder)
Thanks for the comments, Hank. I'm passing them to the list for a wider readership. It will be interesting for us all to know the outcome of the case you mention. Niall ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 13:33:09 +0200 From: Hank Nussbacher <hank at ibm.net.il> Subject: Re: RIPE 29: reminder To: Niall.oReilly at ucd.ie At 03:00 PM 1/20/98 +0000, you wrote: Do you have dates already in May so I can discuss with the rest of the board? I looked over the docs and have very few comments: - 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
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 15:41:09 +0200 From: Hank Nussbacher <hank at ibm.net.il> Subject: Re: RIPE 29: reminder To: Niall.oReilly at ucd.ie
Too short notice to attend - perhaps the next meeting?
Pity. Was this he first notice you had ? There were others, even in December. If you've time, I'ld appreciate it if you could take a look at the current documents and comment as you see fit. They're on
I look forward to seeing you at RIPE 30 in Stockholm in May.
Best regards,
Niall
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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 ---------
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