Re: [icann-europe] European RootServer System

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

On 14:55 23/04/02, Marc Schneiders said:
>I would think any European or non-American root server set that really
>wants to address the namespace issues should start with a pre-ICANN
>root, as far as the included TLDs are concerned. So without the 7 new
>TLDs (biz, info, museum etc) and without ps and eu...

Interesting point. This comes back to 1984 when we interconnected the ARPA 
network. cf. RFC 883 and ".arpa". This is one of my points: we can resume 
development: legacy on its side and International  data networks on the 
other side. We created many TLDs on the Intl side and kept giong. On the 
ARPA side they just created .org, .mil, .edu, .gov.

>Lots of European languages also need ML domains (or IDN as I think we
>are now supposed to call them) to represent their names: Scandinavian
>languages, French, German, Spanish, Portugese, Greek, Dutch. And I am
>sure there are more

True.

> > In light of these points, I do think it is pertinent and sensible to at
> > least explore this issue, not because multiple technical roots are
> > necessarily desirable, but because they may (particularly in the long term)
> > be the most pragmatic and secure way of ensuring interoperability of naming
> > systems.
>
>This sounds like newspeak to me.

Interesting to develop Andy? There are different ideas abou this depending 
on the architecture ideas you may have.

> > I know that is the perspective of the ITU which is concerned with
> > the pragmatic operation of technical systems within the real world
> > constraints of national interests.
>
>I know very little of the efficiency and speed of the ITU. Do you
>think we will ever see, e.g., a new gTLD if the ITU takes over?

God protects us and the ITU/T againts the ITU/T "taking over". What we need 
is the ITU/T to be one mong others hosting a concertation. The ICANN's 
problem is not the ICANN it is its self infatuation into a worldwide gov. 
When we can dialog with it a lot of things will change. They called on the 
Govs for help. The ITU/T is the Govs in the telecom area, so they respond. 
Lynn asked for help, not for being taken ove. If the ITU/T comes and help 
as a) several physical numbering plans b) as the telephone numeric naming 
plan, ie as a peer not as a top, it will be OK. Otherwise it will be doom 
and fight. They know it.

jfc


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