Re: [ga] ccTLD dialogue with Joe Sims (wasRe: your comments

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

Actually, I don't think this will help as much as it should, since the .us
contract written by DoC takes the Sims line: .us must do what ICANN tells
it.

On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Elisabeth Porteneuve wrote:

> 
> 
> Peter Dengate Trush wrote to Joe Sims:
> > But step one is for you and ICANN to accept that the cctlds do not operate
> > under a licence from ICANN. They operate under a duty to their LIC.
> 
> I think that now, since the .us ccTLD has been put back to life,
> we will see a better understanding of ccTLD position from the US 
> colleagues. There is a clear difference in .us and .com managements,
> the former being US matter and duty to their LIC and USG
> (actually the USG did not sign any contract with ICANN for its
> own space, which was analysed as a good example to follow by
> more ccTLDs), the later is an ICANN experiment in devising 
> extraterritorial rules for global TLD, and their reinforcement.
> 
> My personal interpretation is that for many of our US collegues
> there was a confusion between .com (extraterritorial) and .us (USA),
> and a kind of perception that US did accept other countries
> to influence the .com matters, while they do not get "reciprocity"
> for other ccTLD. Now with .us up and running well, they have a
> clear, American example of the difference with gTLD.
> 
> Elisabeth Porteneuve
> 
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