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What do we want?
We have a mechanism that allows all Federally Recognized Indian Tribes to use the DNS.
Every government which wishes to do so may request from the .US operator to create a third-level domain under the second-level domain .NSN.US, and proceed to use that namespace for websites and email addresses.
Of course, the name used must be the name in the Federal Register, though it is possible in theory to use a shorter version, and the .US operator1 is no more interested in the utility and corectness of any .NSN.US delegation than it is in any .STATE-NAME.US delegation, which is to say, not interested at all, and any attempt to create an operational service, member cooperative or not-for-profit or for-profit, has to take place outside of the DNS.
None of these and others I've not mentioned are necessarily fatal to the effective use of the DNS by tribal governments, or groups of tribal governments, or Indian NGOs, Indian business, and Indian civil society, but very little actually happens in .NSN.US. Most Indian use of the net makes use of .COM and .ORG, more or less at random.
Do we want a mechanism that allows tribal governments to individually or in groups or as classes, e.g., the class of governments dependent upon the BIA in the US and the DIAND in Canada, and those recognized by the governments of some states in the US and having constitutional status in Canada, and all Indian schools and Indian NGOs and Indian businesses and Indian social and cultural organizations, and ... all Indian lawyers, academics and geeks, to operate a top-level domain, like Switzerland or France?
What are the shapes of the birds we want? The turkeys we may give thanks for each November in the future?
What is it we want? What we have, or something else?
written Thursday, November 22nd, 2007, in Geneva, Switzerland.
1 NeuStar, for which I wrote the technical components of its bid to the US DoC for .US, then operated by the IANA, for which I consult from time to time.
Comments
A quasi governmental panIndian organization called NSN which the power by financial pressure and smart naivete to monopolize the market for restem.
This ohsure could not work.
Here is a tetetechnical query.
What about secondary nonB-I--A Ebooks?
I mean as the ((Catalan)).
Posted by: Q | November 25, 2007 01:00 AM
Q -- thanks for your comment. The .NSN.US structure has existed for years. It has the problems I mention, and tribes in Canada (and elsewhere) are excluded -- in particular the parts of those that are trans-border (Passamaquoddy, Maleseets, MicMac, Abenaki, Mohawk, ... going east to west on the US/CA line.
A .CAT is another possibility. My original proposal which ICANN adopted in form was .NAA, and for all North American indigenous governments, non-governmental organizations, businesses, individuals, and the temporary home for similar users in Central and South American and the Pacific, until such a time as these grow their own registry.
Posted by: ebw | November 25, 2007 08:40 AM