Re: .africa gTLD

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Martin J. Duerst allegedly said:
> 
> 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.

If the the notion of TLD charters as a standards activity of the IETF 
gets off the ground, someone could write up a charter for .africa, 
and try to get it approved.  That would seem to me to be a better and 
more specific forum for this kind of discussion.

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