[CWG-Stewardship] Fate of the .INT domain

[Martin Boyle]

Bearing in mind the discussions over the years on the operation of .int, identifying a specific date for divesting seems to me to be arbitrary.  As Keith notes, it doesn't look as if there's any current demand, so the process is pretty uncertain, too.

Hence I think that identifying a process or a forum for moving forward, rather than plucking figures out of the air, would be a better approach.

Leaving it to the GAC to assess and make recommendations on next steps would seem to me to be entirely appropriate in this case:  it would be for the GAC to define its own timetable and processes.

MB


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From: cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org [mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Keith Davidson
Sent: 18 May 2015 23:02
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Subject: Re: [CWG-Stewardship] Fate of the .INT domain

Surely we could recommend that ICANN divest itself of .int within a x year period after the transition?

I seem to recall there was a strong interest from the ITU in taking over .int at some point in the past, but has not re-emerged in anything I have seen for several years. I thought it might have been formally proposed by ITU during the NOI and FNOI stages of the NTIA / IANA renewal process. ITU made submissions, but the submissions did not refer to .int iirc.

Cheers

Keith

On 18/05/2015 10:10 a.m., Milton L Mueller wrote:
> I care. That's the kind of thing we should do - at least propose to ask them and initiate a process to change it if they want to.
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>> Hi,
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>> Do we have any idea of what the .int 2nd level registrants want?
>> Do we care?
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>> avri
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