Thanks, Adam,

for clearly pointing to an important task, in your final sentence.

After having been out of the ccTLD administration in Cambodia (which I had created in 1996) for some time, I am now being called back in again to help to clarify what the "multi-stakeholder" approach implies - in a society where there is not so much of an established role for civil society and the private sector - as over against "the government."


Norbert

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On Thursday, 9 July 2009 16:43:11 Adam Peake wrote:

> duh... the delegation/redelegation stuff seems to have begun:
> <http://www.icann.org/en/topics/policy/update-jun09-en.htm#2>
>
> "CCNSO TO EXPLORE ccTLD DELEGATION AND RELATED POLICIES
>
> At a Glance
> The Council of the country code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO)
> has approved a working group to advise the ccNSO Council on launching
> a policy development process on the delegation, re-delegation and
> retirement of ccTLDs
>
> Recent Developments
> The ccNSO revisited the need to review and update the current policy
> for the delegation, re-delegation and retirement of country code Top
> Level Domains at the Mexico City ICANN meeting. It concluded that as
> a first step, a working group needed to be established to better
> understand the scope and issues involved, and to ensure involvement
> of the GAC as they have an interest in the topic as well.
>
> Next Steps
> The ccNSO Secretariat will send out a call for members and observers
> to the working group. The ccNSO Council expects to appoint members to
> the working group at its Sydney meeting."
>
>
> Defining and identifying the role of the local Internet community is
> an important issue for nom-commercial users/NCUC.
>
> Adam

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