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

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

I have raised the question to the ASO address council and ICANN
coordination list.

I'll get back to the WG with the response and we can discuss a
constructive approach to solve this.

Hans Petter Holen
RIPE Address Policy chair / ICANN ASO Address Council co-chair.


> 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.
>