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This is interesting. I take this as another step towards New York City being recognized as a nation of it's own, much like The City [1] and Vatican City [2]. Th

This is interesting. I take this as another step towards New York City being recognized as a nation of it's own, much like The City [1] and Vatican City [2]. The United Nations HQ is already based there, so it has a good claim to said sovereignty. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_city https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_city

anigbrowl 13y ago
The city of London is not a nation. I think you misread the Wikipedia article; as well as being a separate city, it's a separate county, not country. I personally like the idea of independent city-states but historically they have not fared terribly well. I think you'll see a resurgence of this idea in outer space in the coming decades.
- frozenport 13y ago
  Venice, Florance, Singapore, Hong Kong? Rome was originally a city state.
  - anigbrowl 13y ago
    That's a pretty small number of success stories relative to the # of potential candidates, no? Also, none of them except Singapore is still fully self-determining, and Singapore is on a pretty small island rather than being embedded in a larger land mass.
zokier 13y ago
You realize that essentially anyone can buy a TLD these days? It's not sign of anything but excess wealth and/or vanity.
bradleyjg 13y ago
The City is not a sovereign entity. It owes its allegiance to the Crown, but it has been granted certain inalienable privileges over the years. Vatican City on the other hand is a sovereign entity under the Lateran Treaty, and is recognized as such by international law. Under US law it is very difficult to see how either would be possible without a Constitutional amendment.
- aclevernickname 13y ago
  Halsbury's Laws of England: Local Government says this about the relationship between the Lord Mayor of the City of London (not the Mayor of Greater London) and the Queen: By ancient custom the Lord Mayor tenders the City Sword to the Sovereign when she enters the City on state occasions, in token acknowledgement of her overriding authority. The Sovereign touches the sword and, by that gesture, returns it to the Lord Mayor with implied permission to carry it before her whilst she is in the City. Also by ancient custom the permission of the Lord Mayor is sought for the passage of troops through the City, and he receives quarterly, under the Sovereign's sign manual, the password of the Tower of London. As spokesman for the citizens, he is entitled to the right of special access to the Sovereign. They're essentially a small enclave of "free" [1] people who are allied with Liz, smack dab in the middle of London. Most of the previous Lord Mayors of the City of London were descendants of the people who forced King John to sign the Magna Carta. If, in order to stay in honor of the rules of law, they must grant her a faux sovereignty in their kingdom, it's to do her honor that she would not normally [2] need bestowed on her, in order to keep her allied with The City. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_City#Freedom_of_the_City_of_London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_City#Freedom_of... [2] (Free people are all "kings" or "sovereign")

anigbrowl 13y ago

The city of London is not a nation. I think you misread the Wikipedia article; as well as being a separate city, it's a separate county, not country. I personally like the idea of independent city-states but historically they have not fared terribly well. I think you'll see a resurgence of this idea in outer space in the coming decades.

frozenport 13y ago
Venice, Florance, Singapore, Hong Kong? Rome was originally a city state.
- anigbrowl 13y ago
  That's a pretty small number of success stories relative to the # of potential candidates, no? Also, none of them except Singapore is still fully self-determining, and Singapore is on a pretty small island rather than being embedded in a larger land mass.

zokier 13y ago

You realize that essentially anyone can buy a TLD these days? It's not sign of anything but excess wealth and/or vanity.

bradleyjg 13y ago

The City is not a sovereign entity. It owes its allegiance to the Crown, but it has been granted certain inalienable privileges over the years. Vatican City on the other hand is a sovereign entity under the Lateran Treaty, and is recognized as such by international law. Under US law it is very difficult to see how either would be possible without a Constitutional amendment.

aclevernickname 13y ago
Halsbury's Laws of England: Local Government says this about the relationship between the Lord Mayor of the City of London (not the Mayor of Greater London) and the Queen: By ancient custom the Lord Mayor tenders the City Sword to the Sovereign when she enters the City on state occasions, in token acknowledgement of her overriding authority. The Sovereign touches the sword and, by that gesture, returns it to the Lord Mayor with implied permission to carry it before her whilst she is in the City. Also by ancient custom the permission of the Lord Mayor is sought for the passage of troops through the City, and he receives quarterly, under the Sovereign's sign manual, the password of the Tower of London. As spokesman for the citizens, he is entitled to the right of special access to the Sovereign. They're essentially a small enclave of "free" [1] people who are allied with Liz, smack dab in the middle of London. Most of the previous Lord Mayors of the City of London were descendants of the people who forced King John to sign the Magna Carta. If, in order to stay in honor of the rules of law, they must grant her a faux sovereignty in their kingdom, it's to do her honor that she would not normally [2] need bestowed on her, in order to keep her allied with The City. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_City#Freedom_of_the_City_of_London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_City#Freedom_of... [2] (Free people are all "kings" or "sovereign")