ITU cannot be considered authoritative (was_Re: ISO 3166-based Top Level Domain Survey)

Robert Shaw wrote:
> At http://www.itu.int/net/cctlds/nics.htm is a preliminary survey
> conducted by ITU of Internet ISO 3166-based top level domains. The
> material is in in draft form and is made available in order to solicit
> public comment. Information includes all known URLs for registration.
> While every attempt has been made to ensure accuracy, the information
> cannot be considered authoritative as the Internet Assigned Numbers
> Authority (IANA) is the authoritative source for ISO 3166-based
> top level domain delegation information. All raw data gathered has
> been and will continue to be provided to IANA.
>
> Comments and/or corrections on these pages should be sent to
> Ms. Asa Johansson at <asa.johansson at itu.int>.


 Why did the ITU do this research if IANA,
 is clearly "authoritative"? You'd think
 ITU has quite enough to do managing normal
 telephone issues without also taking on the
 role of Research department for the Internet.
 Unless all those telcos behind ITU have
 finally realized they are about to be
 obsoleted and/or bankrupted by the once
 obscure internet? And are scrambling to
 gain a foothold and eventual control over
 the net to save their power/profits?

 Maybe a better expenditure of ITU's vast
 resources would be to study why half of
 humanity hasn't even used a telephone let
 alone had one. They might find that sad
 situation has something to do with the
 monopoly vise grip these same telcos have
 held on telephony all these years. A grip
 that may well be lost with the incursion
 of free competition from the upstart and
 soon-to-be obequitous Internet. As in
 Internet telephony already taking a nice
 chunk out of all those massive Bell type
 corporations' nice black ink profits.



 Bob Allisat
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