I would think that if .nz was removed from the IANA database without
InternetNZ / NZ Government consent, for whatever reason, by the US
Government, the consequences would be extreme against the US Government.
I think a number of root server operators would take immediate steps to
break their current arrangements to publish the authoritative IANA
database and would add manual entries to ensure the continued resolution
of the DNS. I would think a great number of ccTLDs would immediately
resile from the US Government, and launch a process to remove the ccTLD
database from IANA and US Government control, establishing alternate and
independent root server operations. I think the US Government, or at
least the NTIA fully understand the likely consequences. But
nonetheless, given the foibles of US courtroom decisions, agree it is
not beyond the realms of possibility that a situation could arise where
the US Government might be *required* by a US Court to remove IANA
database entries.
So I think its a case of "all your base are not belong to us" �:-)
This topic might have some value being aired at the Nethui or foo?
Cheers
Keith
And in a lame attempt to keep the topic acceptable on NZNOG:
Get me a beer?
Get it yourself!
Sudo get me a beer?
OK.
On 16/03/2012 1:03 p.m., Andy Linton wrote:
> On 15/03/12 16:43 , Keith Davidson wrote:
>
>>
>> I suppose the strength that can continue for ccLTDs like .nz, facing
>> competition from the potential large number of new gTLDs, is that we
>> remain completely at arms length from US law enforcement and politics,
>
> There's one "minor" corner case where a US court could direct ICANN,
> IANA, Verisign etc to remove the .nz delegation from the root zone.
>
> Oh, and large chunks of our routing to the rest of the world goes via
> the US so perhaps not quite completely.
>
> And I guess if the Megaupload story tells us anything our authorities
> will do what they're asked.
>
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