Re: ISO 3166 namespace administration & Proposal

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Simon,

  Please read below your comments.

Simon Higgs wrote:
> 
> At 10:16 AM +0300 12/29/96, Kevin Brown wrote:
> 
> > Why not applications for sharing all ISO TLDs?
> >
> 
> The correct way to do this is to assign guidelines for each ISO TLD
> admninistrator to follow. They have two choices. Shared or non-shared.
> It's very, very simple at this point. The country either has a
> democratic-ish process and will listen to the wishes of their user-base
> or it doesn't and won't. The decision is made locally and only affects
> that country. Pressure from other countries adopting a shared model
> will encourage other countries to do this too.

  I think this is a good suggestion in general.  
> 
> Either way, the option (and guidelines) for every ISO TLD to be shared
> (by registries within that geographic region) *MUST* be in the draft.
> If the IAHC do not build this option into the draft, the rest of the
> world suffers from the consequences.

  I tend to agree here.  But this still goes back to my earliest
comments
reguarding the draft.  It is incomplete vauge and several major points
are seriously flawed.  Without fixing or rewriting the draft, I fear
there will not be broad support for the IAHC and what they espouse
to accomplish.  This will dammage any creditibility for IAHC, IANA,
and have possible longer reaching consequences for the internet 
community and it's users.

Regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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