[address-policy-wg] IPv6 Policy Clarification - Initial allocation criteria "d)"

Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:

>>>>>Who sets that policy? Actually, what is the national IR? National 
>>>>>government? Who gives the national IR authority?
>>>>
>>>>Do you know how nations get ccTLDs?
>>>>
>>>>Hint: We have UN.

> IANA and ICANN simply refer to the UPU list to decide whether or not to 
> give out a ccTLD. They prefer to give the ccTLD to an administrator who 
> has the support of the majority of Internet users in the ccTLD area and 
> there is a dispute procedure to sort out arguments. If necessary, 
> governments can win those disputes but it usually is not necessary for 
> governments to get involved at all because the independent ccTLD 
> organizations in most countries try to do a good enough job that nobody 
> complains about them.

So, just as there are national NICs there can be national IRs.

National IRs may nor may not be a part of a government.

						Masataka Ohta

PS

It's not UPU but ISO-3166, which is maintained by UN (security
council).

http://www.icann.org/icp/icp-1.htm

: whose codes are assigned from a table known as ISO-3166-1, which is
: maintained by an agency of the United Nations.