Re: ISO 3166 recomendations.

[Kevin Brown <kevinbr@netcomm.ie>]

At 0:24 +0300 21/12/96, David Collier-Brown wrote:
>Thabet Birro wrote:
>> Could you elaborate more on this "mandate"?  (its origin,
>> limits, dates, nature etc. etc).  Also, has the role of
>> IANA changed vis-a-vis these national DNSes?  Perhaps
>> someone from IANA would care to comment and inform us
>> with these.. changes?  My initial understanding was the
>> IAHC is to be concerned with the new iTLDs/gTLDs only.
>> How about a confirmation one way or another?
>
>  I'm speaking about the ARPAnauts, generally: the persons
>who first become aware of the value of a public resource
>have a moral and ethical duty to employ it for the good
>of the public which ``owns'' it.
>(Note: I'm speaking as a philolosopher and historian about
>common law in this case, on the off chance you didn't guess
>that from context).
>
>  The IAHC has a narrower focus, but exactly the same moral and
>ethical duty to act as a guardian of the resource which they
>are setting rules about.
>   They cannot **lack** a mandate to ``consider and make
>reccomendations about its use''.  If they speak to the
>question of international/generic domains, they have a responsibility
>to also speak to the same questions in national domains.  They

Agreed!

>can lack a mandate to impose rules on duly delegated domains, or they

The key phrase...."duly delegated". What is the policy for delegation?
There is an RFC regarding this. So if there is an RFC and a policy, where
is the history and documentation kept regarding each and every delegation?
Hey, you all want to know about accountability on new TLDs.... what about
some accountability on the old ones?

Kevin

>can disclaim an intention to, or define a mission which is narrower
>than all that, of course.
>
>  As I said, ``That they make recommendations which originate in part
>with the .au and .uk iso3166 TLDs is perfectly reasonable:
>we should share our good ideas.  That they are only recommendations
>shows good taste and humility.''
>
>--dave (Being naturally quite arrogant, I'm strongly into humility) c-b
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