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What would that even mean? You can't own a database record. Nevertheless, a US court can certainly rule how ICANN has to operate. Most other national courts fee
by quonn 12y ago
What would that even mean? You can't own a database record. Nevertheless, a US court can certainly rule how ICANN has to operate. Most other national courts feel similar for "their" ccTLD and since the respective NIC is usually in the same country as the court they have to obey those rulings.
Simply, ICANN defines the content of a database and it has self-imposed rules how it delegates part of that work to others. The rest of the world currently mirrors the database, but this might change if ICANN does something very stupid or is required to do so by others.
In other words, it's about perceived power of various courts in what is actually a process based on global consensus.
- RubyPinch 12y agohow much can the rest of the world practically do though? only 3 of 13 root servers are outside of America's direct jurisdiction, and those servers splitting off would only cause confusing disarray, while America continues to be the main authority in the western world
- psykovsky 12y ago> only 3 of 13 root servers are outside of America's direct jurisdiction Time to change that?
- pdabbadabba 12y ago> You can't own a database record. Well not when you put it that way. But you certainly can have a property interest in a database record's being updated or not updated in a certain way. Think of it this way: your money on deposit at the bank is "just" a database record -- either at the band itself or, less directly, at the Federal Reserve. And this is just one example. Plenty of assets ultimately reduce to a database entry on a computer somewhere.