Re: .africa gTLD

["Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>]

On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Bill Manning wrote:

> 
> wrt mr Browns concerns.....
> 
> 	I was personally involved with the migration of two national 
> 	country country codes from private hands into the the nation 
> 	state.  
> 
> 	It has been done in the past and I expect that once the nation
> 	state is informed, it can/will happen again.

Speaking with my brother yesterday (working for the ICRC in the area
of Central Africa, but not a technology expert), he pointed out
an additional problem: While a certain registrar may well have
been sanctionned by a government at one point of time, with an
overthrow of a government, the situation might change quickly.

In this light, a .africa domain indepentend of a "nation state"
that may not exist or may not be very stable is well worth
contemplating.

Regards,	Martin.