Re: .africa gTLD

[Kevin Brown <kevinbr@netcomm.ie>]

At 1:48 +0300 20/1/97, Tierno S. Bah wrote:

>
>This plea touches on a most sensitive aspect of country TLDs management
>in Africa. The IAHC reports recognizes that country TLDs fall under the
>responsibility of sovereign nations. Unfortunately that sovereignty
>suffers for from neglect from a number of African governments. As a
>result, country TLDs have been hijacked by foreign UNIX gurus.
Tierno,

This again ( whinge mode on) brings to light the problems with Delegation
of ISO TLDs. Sadly everyone still thinks that TLD delegations are given to
soveriegn bodies. Sad that no-one seems to give credence to the word
delegation. Sad that the IAHC could not find time to address problems that
the largest area of domain registration face.

Yes, ISO TLDs have more registrations than .com, or so I have been told.

One root. One Policy for ALL domains, irrespective of where they are.

.africa amd .mideast and .eur could solve this. Or the IAHC and IANA could
also solve it. They delegated under a set of rules. No goverment owns the "
. " so no gevernment should be able to set individual policies that
trancend national boundaries.

Kevin

>Instead
>of building standard servers at home, authorities hire foreign
>consultants to manage remotely their domain name. Just do WHOIS queries
>and you will find out. Some African countries TLDs have not even been
>registered yet. Others do not have their own IP Address(es). Others have
>IP addresses but are run as simple directories on foreign servers.
>The generic TLD .africa could provide NIC services (training and
>support) to African country TLDs managers in Africa, based on
>professional standards and guidelines.
>
>
>- Tierno S. Bah
>AfriQ*Access, Inc.


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