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Masataka Ohta
mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp
Tue Jun 22 17:20:08 CEST 2004
Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote: >>>>>Who sets that policy? Actually, what is the national IR? National >>>>>government? Who gives the national IR authority? >>>> >>>>Do you know how nations get ccTLDs? >>>> >>>>Hint: We have UN. > IANA and ICANN simply refer to the UPU list to decide whether or not to > give out a ccTLD. They prefer to give the ccTLD to an administrator who > has the support of the majority of Internet users in the ccTLD area and > there is a dispute procedure to sort out arguments. If necessary, > governments can win those disputes but it usually is not necessary for > governments to get involved at all because the independent ccTLD > organizations in most countries try to do a good enough job that nobody > complains about them. So, just as there are national NICs there can be national IRs. National IRs may nor may not be a part of a government. Masataka Ohta PS It's not UPU but ISO-3166, which is maintained by UN (security council). http://www.icann.org/icp/icp-1.htm : whose codes are assigned from a table known as ISO-3166-1, which is : maintained by an agency of the United Nations.
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