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 = 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 -- If you want to know what is going on in Cambodia, please visit The Mirror, a regular review of the Cambodian language press in English. This is the latest weekly editorial: “Lost in Translation?” – or Why Is there Not More Timely and Clear Information? http://tinyurl.com/pqn6qk (To read it, click on the line above.) And here is something new every day: http://cambodiamirror.wordpress.com