Re: [alac] Guide to Domain Names

["Siavash Shahshahani" <shahshah@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wendy,
I really think that a fair and general guide to domain system which can
receive ALAC/ICANN endorsement would be most welcome at least in my
community. People trust such an endorsement, which makes it more
imperative that it be unbiased and clarify common misunderstandings. Let
me give you an example. The IDN table of .ir Registry was sent to IANA
more than a year ago, but it has not appeared yet on the IANA list(for
reasons I don't want to speculate about now). This makes people question
the authoritativeness of our IDN offering, and we are constantly asked 
why we're not getting IANA endorsement.
So in short, I think the idea of putting out a guide is a very good one.
I'd be happy to participate in a working group to make it happen.
Best,
siavash

> Thanks Siavash,
>
> I'll reiterate to Miriam that this document cannot use ALAC's name
> without revisions that meet the Committee's consensus approval.  I
> agree that as a matter of fairness in competition, ICANN and ALAC
> cannot sponsor a guide that describes just some of the domain
> names.  It does a disservice to registrants and users of domain names
> to imply that some are better than others just because they are
> easier to describe.
>
> Do you think this is a project it's worthwhile for ALAC to pursue, if
> it can be made more inclusive?  (I don't know whose idea it was, or
> why it came to have ALAC's name in the first place.)
>
> --Wendy
>
> At 04:52 PM 11/14/2006 +0330, Siavash Shahshahani wrote:
>
>>I wish to record a basic objection to the 'Guide' appearing as an ALAC
>>product. In the introduction it is stated that that the guide is
>> primarily
>>focused on gTLDs and, in fact, it is not hard to notice that ccTLDs are
>>totally ignored. For 'A Guide to Domain Names' presumably directed at the
>>less-informed this is totally unacceptable. Note that:
>>1. Roughly one third of existing domains in world are cc domains.
>>2. There is already a good deal of misinformation at least among the
>>populace of developing countries thinking that their native ccTLD is
>>somehow less 'official', less respectable or intrinsically less secure
>>than a '.com'.
>>I think that if the registry sponsors listed on page 3 want to put out a
>>guide for gTLDs, let them do it in their own name. I am well aware of the
>>difficulty of dealing with the varieties of ccTLD practices, but still a
>>short general guide not dealing with minute details can be produced that
>>covers both types of domains.
>>-Siavash
>>
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> Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
> Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
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Phone: (+98 21) 22 82 80 80; 22 82 80 81, ext 113
Cell: (+98 912)104 2501
Fax: (+98 21) 22 29 57 00
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