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  1. Re:Kieren McCarthy is clue-less by julesh · · Score: 1 · on EU Domain Registries & ICANN

    they represent their members, around 50 TLD's (http://www.centr.org/members/) - that's not even a simple majority of TLD

    True. But they do represent the vast majority of ccTLDs by total number of registrations.

  2. Kieren McCarthy is clue-less by orange · · Score: 2, Informative · on EU Domain Registries & ICANN
    He can't even get basic facts right. One example:
    he say that CENTR is "an organisation representing the majority of the world's top-level domains".
    this is crock - they represent their members, around 50 TLD's (http://www.centr.org/members/) - that's not even a simple majority of TLD (around 260 - see http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm for some of them).

    Read what this guy writes with a pinch of salt - he can't even get basic facts right.

  3. not the end of the world by legoburner · · Score: 1 · on ICANN Won't Get DNS Root Servers
    One thing to consider is the opinion of CENTR, The European TLD registry union, who obviously are not American, but regardless are opposed to the ITU-T taking control over ICANN. Their opinion on this ruling is important and as follows (cut from theregister article today)

    CENTR - an organisation representing a large number of country-code domains - has responded to the US government's declaration. In a cautious welcome, it agreed that the root files needed to be run in a neutral manner and welcomed its support for ICANN, but pushed that ICANN should focus only on its "core function and limited remit".

    Disingenuously, CENTR also says that the stated approach to be taken by the US government "de-politicises the role of the Root Servers and empowers the relevant local Internet Registries and the respective Government to once again". As representative for country-code domains, CENTR will be delighted by the US government's statement that it considers different countries as having complete rights over their own country domain.

    I had been looking into the arguments for WSIS against ITU-T and ICANN and have to agree with CENTR that both need vast improvement, but the WSIS in November might have been detrimental due to countries choosing sovereignty over stability. This at least throws a spanner in the works, allowing a bit more stability until a real alternative to ICANN/ITU-T (and now the US DoC) is worked out.

  4. Re:Globalization at its finest by alexpage · · Score: 1 · on DNS Root Servers Outside US Surpass Those Inside

    Ooh, I know this from working at CENTR...

    As any fule no, the country TLDs are the two-digit country codes from ISO3166 with a couple of exceptions, including the United Kingdom who were already using .uk when this agreement was reached (IIRC there are a few legacy .gb domains, but I couldn't get a zone transfer working to check).

    The ISO working group in charge of 3166 was mostly comprised of Europeans, especially French engineers, which is why most of the country codes are biased towards the European names for the countries.