[AfrICANN-discuss] on dots and cities

[Mawaki Chango]

> Should we anticipate the DNS extended to such levels? 

I'm sure you should, and as you anticipate, policy-making will
be more and more complex but still doable. As to whether that
would be ICANN's or ccTLD responsibility, it depends where you
want to be in the domain name space. Those cities want to be
visible at the global top level of the DNS, so they have to turn
to ICANN. Otherwise, they may as well address their respective
ccTLD and feature at second level, e.g., .dakar.sn or .paris.fr.

So the applicants have the choice of the level, and the locus of
policy authority will ensue accordingly.

Mawaki

--- Vika Mpisane <vika at zadna.org.za> wrote:

> Thanks, Calvin & Adiel, for clarifiying this piece of news. 
> 
> It was a bit confusing & indeed somewhat painted a picture of
> how far behind
> Africa is. It does give one an idea of how far the DNS can go
> in
> establishing different kinds of TLDs. We're used to ccTLDs &
> gTLDs being
> probably the "only" kinds of TLDs. But if in the future we'll
> allow TLDs
> such as city-specific TLDs, I guess policy-making will
> continue to be an
> interesting & pressing issue within ICANN & Internet
> governance in general. 
> 
> Should we anticipate the DNS extended to such levels? And
> would that be an
> ICANN or just a ccTLD policy issue? My uninformed gut feel is
> city-specific
> TLDs would have to be a ccTLD issue???
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vika Mpisane
> .za Domain Name Authority
> Tel: +27 11 275 0082
> Fax: +27 11 234 5022
>  
> "Life lies not in never falling, but in rising when you fall."
> Nelson Mandela, 1995, Eastern Cape.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: africann-bounces at afrinic.net
> [mailto:africann-bounces at afrinic.net] On
> Behalf Of Calvin Browne
> Sent: 14 May 2007 16:35
> To: africann at afrinic.net
> Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] on dots and cities
> 
> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 14:19 +0300, Rebecca Wanjiku wrote:
> > i think it also goes along way to demonstrate africa's
> slumber....
> > we are still grappling with whether to support our ccTLDs
> while others 
> > have moved to cities
> > 
> > i will not be surprised that some of us will dash to acquire
> these 
> > domains instead of supporting our own,
> > 
> > bex
> 
> <my opinions here>
> 
> Before you go and believe this rubbish (that .LA is assigned
> to Los
> Angeles) please have a look at
> http://www.iana.org/root-whois/la.htm .
> 
> Basically, the domain for Lao People's Democratic Republic is
> being marketed
> to the people of Los Angeles - in a manner that is
> questionable at best, and
> down right fraudulent as worst.
> 
> regards
> 
> --Calvin
> 
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