[ih] Internet should be in private hands

[Ole Jacobsen]

Jon Postel also wanted ccTLDs to use the official ISO 3166
list of countries, which became a problem for the UK whose
ISO 3166 code is GB, so Jon had to make an exception.

Life was simple back then :-)

Ole

> On Dec 7, 2022, at 08:29, Craig Partridge via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 8:47 PM John Gilmore via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I recall a time when the Domain Name System top-level domain (TLD) for
>> each country had to be handled by a private party, not by the government
>> that ran the country.
>> 
>> 
> As I recall, Jon Postel didn't object to a government handling -- he simply
> wanted a responsible custodian.  In most cases, governments weren't
> prepared.
> 
> The reason for this recollection is that I believe some European
> governments took a role in designating who ran their initial TLD and that
> CSNET did a certain amount of mediating (and I worked for CSNET at the
> time).  But my memory may be conflating multiple issues as there were also
> European governments who argued over who controlled their CSNET connection
> to the Internet.
> 
> Craig
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