[address-policy-wg] Summary of the PI Task Force's recent discussions

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:00:02AM +0100,
 Carlos Friacas <cfriacas at fccn.pt> wrote 
 a message of 29 lines which said:

> > If all non-US-ccTLD registries (of which there are lots more than
> > US-based) start beating ICANN with joint forces, I'm pretty sure that
> > this will have an effect.
> 
> Has anyone tried serious reasoning with them about these delays???

Good Lord, on which planet were you, the last five years? All the
ccTLD managers, as well as many governments, a lof of concerned
individuals and so on, have tried to move IANA faster. If it does not,
it is not a technical issue (unlike ".com" or even ".fr", the root is
a very small zone, easily maintainable manually), it is a political
one.

IANA blackmails the ccTLD managers: if they do not sign the
"sponsorship agreement" (not one in Europe did), even very trivial
changes are delayed for ever.