DNS Naming Convention

[bmanning at karoshi.com]

>> > Does it mean that the US institutions have a control over all other country
>> > domains?
>> 
>> 	practically - yes.
>> 
>> --bill
> 
> nominally - yes.
> practically - no.
> 
> Practically, don't you think that if the DoC tried to pull anything on
> the ccTLDs even milder than what Verisign tried to pull on .com and
> .net, they'd get jumped on even harder?
> 
> -- 
> Joe Yao				jsdy at center.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao

	well, based on Paul Towmey's (ICANN CEO) presentation to the 
	GAC plenary at the ICANN mtg today, -every- change to the root 
	zone, for -every- TLD needed to get US DoC approval.

	that said, you are likely correct.

--bill