Data for this project was obtained from ccTLD websites, ccTLD contacts and GAC representatives between June and September 2002. The following questions were posed:
What type of relationship exists between the ccTLD and the government?
Has legislation been enacted on ccTLD governance or ccTLD-Government relationship?
Has any other government activity such as a memorandum of understanding or a government review of ccTLD management been pursued?
Is there an agreement with ICANN?
The government-ccTLD relationships have been categorized in the following manner:
Formal:
Where ccTLD is part of government, or
Where there is an official agreement or contract between the ccTLD and government.
Informal:
Where ccTLD has a working relationship with government, or
Where there is no relationship with the government, or
the ccTLD operates with government sanction, but no contact.
______________
1 Appendix I provides an overview of the ccTLD-government relationships in tables.
Contact:
Michael A. Geist
University of Ottawa Law School
Common Law Section
Tel: +1 613 562 5800
Fax: +1 613 562 5124
Email: mgeist@pobox.com
Attention: This is not a publication made available to the public, but an internal ITU-T Document intended only for use by the Member States of the ITU, by ITU-T Sector Members and Associates, and their respective staff and collaborators in their ITU related work. It shall not be made available to, and used by, any other persons or entities without the prior written consent of the ITU-T.
