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Re: U.S. Homeland Security dept, ICANN, and the root servers

To: Mark Handley <mjh@icir.org>
Subject: Re: U.S. Homeland Security dept, ICANN, and the root servers
From: Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 07:25:44 +0200
Cc: Leslie Daigle <leslie@thinkingcat.com>, Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>, iesg@ietf.org, iab@ietf.org
In-reply-to: <55227.1049328995@aardvark.icir.org>

On torsdag, apr 3, 2003, at 02:16 Europe/Stockholm, Mark Handley wrote:

I have a problem in principle with all root-zone changes needing to be
approved by the US Department of Commerce.  If someone wants to change
the nameservers for a non-US country-code TLD, this isn't for the US
Department of Commerce to validate, but for the country in question.

In _theory_ what DoC is doing in this case is to verify that the request is authoritative, and nothing more.

paf

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