On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote: > ICANN is not the controlling body for the ".". That role belongs to the > US Dept. of Commerce. It chooses to take ICANN's advice, but has no duty > to do so. Lengthy legal details at: well i hate to say in the end the legal argument amount to alot of jibberish. i appreciate your hard work on behalf of the community but your idea of control is flawed. thats what happens when one spends more time looking at law and misses the technical details. everyone has made that mistake. the "." is in the control of the end users. thats who has always been in charge of ".". the DOC is irrelevant with respect to control. it's a consumer choice. now if every government on this planet wants to regulate what *.* their users use - then i say fine - thats an experiment i would love to see happen. better then the fireworks i see all the time at del crary park. but failing that complete technical control of "." is in the hands of the internets end users. thats where the power in "." resides. regards joe baptista