<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Wrong. As always.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">ICANN is on record in the .IR/.SY/.KR case that the NTIA is the decision maker. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Even though the NTIA says they are only clerical, of course there has been no case where NTIA has not crossed the i and dotted the t on ICANN board decisions.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Verisign has no control whatsoever, they are just technical.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">el <br><br>-- <div>Sent from Dr Lisse's iPad mini 4</div></div><div><br>On 23 Jun 2016, at 09:27, Seun Ojedeji <<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="ltr">Hi,</p>
<p dir="ltr">The ccTLD and the gTLD/other TLDs records are within the ICANN root. While there are procedures that ensures a distributed control, the reality remains that the one who maintains the root has the overall "technical control" which is Verisign. The community/ICANN/ccTLD et all trust that they will continue to respect laid down process and not go out of scope.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That symbolises the principle for which the internet was built upon which is trust at the middle of all our political and personal interests.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards<br>
Sent from my LG G4<br>
Kindly excuse brevity and typos</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 23 Jun 2016 6:25 a.m., "Phil Corwin" <<a href="mailto:psc@vlaw-dc.com">psc@vlaw-dc.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Appreciate your intervention, Greg. </div>
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<div>As you point out, my main point was that ICANN maintains an accurate root zone file (yes, with VeriSign performing the actual technical work, now under contract with the USG, soon to be under contract with ICANN) and has no control
over the operation of a ccTLD. </div>
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<div>I stand corrected on my use of the word "control" in regard to the relationship between a national government of the country with which the particular ccTLD is associated, and this denizen of the gTLD sector looks forward to learning
more about ccTLDs.<br>
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Philip S. Corwin, Founding Principal</div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></body></html>