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"Do no damage" - Comment on IDN-ccTLD Fast Track

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  • Subject: "Do no damage" - Comment on IDN-ccTLD Fast Track
  • From: Alejandro Pisanty <apisan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:44:32 +0000 (UTC)


An important, crucial constraint of the IDN-ccTLD fast track process must be that careful consideration be made of the effect of starting operations of an IDN-ccTLD on the functioning of the existing, corresponding ccTLD management.

By and large ccTLD managers have been pioneers of the Internet in their countries, especially developing ones; they have steered through difficult times, creating a multistakeholder environment "avant la (WSIS) lettre", contributed to the expansion of and adherence to Internet standards, and assisted in the growth of their national Internet economies. Many of them have made it possible for the academic, technical, social, and private sectors to guide the management of the ccTLD in a proper balance with the government - a delicate balance, in general, which could be tragic to upset.

Provisions must be made to avoid the possibility that in some countries, the delegation and operation of an IDN-ccTLD, coupled with changes in laws and policies made ad-hoc, be used to undermine or otherwise damage the ability of an otherwise perfectly acceptable ccTLD manager.

A cycle of consultation withtin the Local Internet Community, conducted with extreme care and accompanied by careful due diligence, and without interference with national sovereignty principles, seems to be at least one crucial component of the process to provide such safeguards. What for a large, distant organization may seem opening a can of worms, may be, for a local, small entity waking up in a snake pit.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty


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     Dr. Alejandro Pisanty
UNAM, Av. Universidad 3000, 04510 Mexico DF Mexico


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