Thus spake "Keith Moore" <moore@cs.utk.edu> > > The US DoC operates, directly or indirectly, 6 of the 13 root servers, > > including A. Whether it is "right" or not is irrelevant -- the DoC has > > the power to do whatever it wants to the root. > > we REALLY need to rectify that situation. perhaps what we need are large > numbers of alternate roots that DON'T try to define new TLDs but which > exist solely to prevent the US government from exerting control... Let's not forget you wouldn't have an Internet without the US Govt. IMHO, we should elminate (or at least close) all of the gTLDs except "arpa" and "int" and let each country handle its own ccTLD however it sees fit. With the exception of the .au mess, I haven't seen any ccTLD policy decision come out of IANA/ICANN which was remotely questionable. As much as everyone loves bashing the US Govt, I don't see anything the DoC has done which wasn't in the interests of the Internet community. I think we can all imagine how things would look if we handed the root over to ISO, or the ITU, or the UN, or some other similarly "qualified" international organization. S