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:rmeyer@mhsc.com>rmeyer@mhsc.com 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