STATEMENT FROM THE
ccTLD MANAGERS MEETING IN MONTEVIDEO AT THE IANA-ccTLD WORKSHOP SEPTEMBER 8
2001
The ICANN
ccTLD Liaison, established the ccTLD-IANA Workgroup at the Stockholm ICANN
meeting with the stated intention of improving communication between IANA and
the ccTLD's and improving the service from IANA to the ccTLD's. Twenty-nine
ccTLD managers attended the Stockholm meeting, and the same number attended the
meeting in Montevideo on September 8 2001.
The ccTLD
managers present at the Workgroup meeting in Montevideo reiterated their
concerns regarding IANA services as expressed at the Stockholm meeting. The
major concern remains very slow action by IANA on legitimate routine technical
updates, (e.g., notification of nameserver changes.) and unilateral changes to
the schema of the database.
We
acknowledge and welcome the ICANN ccTLD Liaison's good intentions to build
links with the ccTLD community, and to establish trust between the ccTLD's and
IANA. However, we note with regret that these meetings appear to indicate that
the IANA is unwilling or unable to act upon the clear consensus of the
meetings. The effect of this creates doubts about IANA's intentions, and
therefore the meetings do not have the effect intended, and may even have the
opposite effect.
Accordingly
we invite the CEO of ICANN and any appropriate staff from IANA to attend the
ccTLD-IANA meeting in November in the hopes of remedying the situation.