[CWG-Stewardship] Fate of the .INT domain

Avri Doria avri at acm.org
Wed May 27 15:26:24 UTC 2015


Hi,

and i agree it can wait as long as long as the various bylaws are clear
about neither ICANN nor IANA running a TLD regsitry.

avri


On 27-May-15 11:17, Avri Doria wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Though we did use a very complicated process to redelegate .org way back
> when.
> So there is precedence for developing an intentional method of making
> such a decision.
>
> I agree that it is not obvious why this decision belongs to the GAC and
> not to a CWG
> Though of course GAC advice would be useful as ever.
>
> avri
>
> On 27-May-15 10:23, Milton L Mueller wrote:
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>> I`m a bit surprised about theassumption that any/all pre-existing TLDs
>> would somehow require a multistakeholder approach to determining who
>> the registry operator should be -  as in, .coop, .museum, etc, But
>> again  - we shouldn’t try to solve this in the CWG.
>>
>>  
>>
>> MM: Elise, no one said all existing gTLDs should be redelegated by an
>> MS process. Indeed, that is a rather fantastic construction. The
>> reason .INT is anomalous is that its original delegation was
>> completely outside of the ICANN process, or any established process.
>> No one has provided a credible argument as to why the root zone
>> administrator should be running a TLD and there have been many
>> unrefuted arguments as to why it should not be; figuring out what to
>> do with INT is about that. In other words, getting.INT out of IANA as
>> an extension of the transition process has nothing to do with any
>> sponsored TLD.  It is administrative cleanup work.
>>
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