> On 9 Apr 2012, at 16:37, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote: > > > FYI > > > > http://www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/chapman-to-beckstrom-30mar12-en > > > > wolfgang Avri Doria replied: > I wonder if those applying for such names can expect GAC Early Warnings. > I just wonder if these people have realised that despite ICANN being a US organisation and despite the US' recent appalling extension of criminal jurisdiction over any domain registered with Verisign or another US-based registrar (see the Richard O'Dwyer case), that the Internet is a worldwide technology and that terminologies have different meanings in different places. When .net stopped being a routing-only domain, the idea that a gTLD actually means anything beyond what its registar says it does (.edu means something as does .ac.uk but only because the TLD owner has a policy and enforces it) has already long left the building. -- Professor Andrew A Adams [log in to unmask] Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/