[alac] RE: [alac-admin] Re: [ga] More ALAC Follies

["Roberto Gaetano" <alac_liaison@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I assume we can move this to the public list.
[ga omitted, as I am subscribed with a different address, but feel free to 
forward]

The point is not only the size of the ccTLD, but the way it operates in the 
community. Most ccTLDs are not only a Registry, but include other functions: 
obviously this is more common for small ccTLDs, but not limited to them. 
Typical case is the Eastern European ccTLDs, most of which run by academic 
institutions, most of which with strong links to the user community.
This subject came out in several meetings ALAC had with the ccTLDs, and we 
agreed that there is a synergy in working together. This was, for instance, 
the main reason for my trip to Erevan for the CENTR meeting last year.

Therefore, more than an occasional coincidence, I would say a stratecic 
approach. Of course, when we consider applications for ALS, we have to 
evaluate whether the applicant is just a registry manager, and reject the 
application, or fostering activity in the local internet community, and in 
that case accept the application.

Regards,
Roberto GAETANO
ALAC
ICANN BoD Liaison





> From: Vittorio Bertola <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, committee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [alac-admin] Re: [ga] More ALAC Follies
> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:35:01 +0100
>
> Danny Younger ha scritto:
> > I see that the ALAC has accepted yet another ccTLD
> > manager as an At-Large Structure -- the Internet Users
> > Society Niue.  Their application states:  "The Society
> > is the cctld manager of .nu and is funded by .NU
> > Domain Ltd the marketing arm of IUS-N".
> >
> > Earlier, the ALAC had approved the application for the
> > Sudan Internet Society which is the ccTLD manager for
> > the .sd domain.
> >
> > Sorry, but I'm afraid I no longer understand the
> > definition of "at-large"... perhaps someone on the
> > ALAC can clear up my confusion...
> >
> > It seems to me that logic would dictate that a ccTLD
> > manager would choose to affiliate himself with the
> > ccNSO, and that noncommercial organizations would
> > choose to join the NCUC.
>
> The State of Niue has 2'156 inhabitants in total. It seems natural to me 
> that those few who constitute the local Internet community also run the 
> ccTLD.
> I think that in countries where the Internet is still at its embryonic 
> state of development it is very hard to draw a line between "the users 
> community" and "the technical community". It would have been much different 
> if we had received an application from, say, the ccTLD manager for Italy 
> :-)
> --
> vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----
> http://bertola.eu.org/  <- Prima o poi...

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