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Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India
From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner () nic-naa net>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:42:21 -0500
In article <95F7DF59-052D-43BA-869F-289DF915C62E () arbor net> you write:On Mar 10, 2012, at 7:02 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:there are four gtldsAren't there actually seven?Including the new IDN TLDs, there are now 60.
well .... there are the legacy (pre-2000) set. there are the seven arising from the 7-10 proposal from WG-C*, aka the "2000 round**", of which three are "sponsored" (restrictions on registration policies) and four were "generic" (no such restrictions, price caps), all of which operate in some form or another at present. there are the set arising from the 2004 round***, all of which nominally are "sponsored", which now includes .xxx, but does not yet include .post (501(c)(3) (choice-of-contracting-or-memoing with a treaty organization problem), so about two dozen. there are the IDN (ascii encoded representations of unicode) delegations arising from the IDN ccTLD Fast-Track program, which share the no-or-significiantly-different-contract property of the delegations made for most iso3166 code points. to refer to these as "generic" is both reasonable, and misleading. the underlying issue is whether the operator has repurposed the original ASCII, or subsequent IDN delegations, as more similar to the CNOBI**** set of registries on a registration policy basis, making the delegation "generic", but without a CNOBI-like contract with ICANN, or not. examples of repurposed ccTLDs are nu, cc, me, us, ... the location of registries is quite distinct from the location of name server constellations, with the former being mono- or dual-sited, and operated by the delegee or single (there are exceptions) contractor, and the latter being multi-sited, and operated by multiple parties. a related issue, the subject of v6 evangelism, is the availability of redundant transit, which under the current ICANN DAG, appears to me to preclude registry siting in venues lacking redundant native v6 transit in Q12013, limiting data centers in Africa and South Asia. cheers, -e * member, WG-C. ** contributor to one or more successful 2000 registry inits. *** contributor to one or more successful 2004 registry inits. **** CNOBI == COM/NET/ORG/BIZ/INFO -- a single business model.
Current thread:
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India, (continued)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India David Conrad (Mar 10)
- ccTLD operators do not "rule", was Re: Concern about ... Edward Lewis (Mar 11)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Frank Habicht (Mar 09)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Graham Beneke (Mar 09)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Anurag Bhatia (Mar 09)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Robert E. Seastrom (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Dobbins, Roland (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Graham Beneke (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India John Levine (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Eric Brunner-Williams (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India David Conrad (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India John R. Levine (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Eric Brunner-Williams (Mar 10)
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- Re: root zone stats Anurag Bhatia (Mar 11)
- Re: [apnic-talk] root zone stats David Conrad (Mar 11)
- Re: root zone stats Martin Hepworth (Mar 11)
- RE: root zone stats Frank Bulk (Mar 11)
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