North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
At 08:48 PM 9/30/98 -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: >On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 05:16:50PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote: >> But as part of the whole picture, that Tonga's domain seems to be used >> as nothing but a "safe harbor" for porn sites engaged in criminal >> activity and even their own supposed govt consulate comes up as an ad >> for a software company etc, it would seem to indicate that this >> domain, .to, is not being used as a legitimate country TLD, is not >> being managed by the people it was assigned to for the purpose it was >> assigned, etc. > >This raises a qustion I was hoping we could avoid for quite a long >time: > >Who is in a position of authority to pass judgement on whether the >assigned authority over the .to top-level domain should "be allowed" to >register such people in it's domain? Is there a policy on the root >domain? Who enforces this? Who owns it? There isn't one, there shouldn't be one, and I will resist any attempts to put one there. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky |