On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:00:02AM +0100, Carlos Friacas <cfriacas@fccn.pt> wrote a message of 29 lines which said:
If all non-US-ccTLD registries (of which there are lots more than US-based) start beating ICANN with joint forces, I'm pretty sure that this will have an effect.
Has anyone tried serious reasoning with them about these delays???
Good Lord, on which planet were you, the last five years? All the ccTLD managers, as well as many governments, a lof of concerned individuals and so on, have tried to move IANA faster. If it does not, it is not a technical issue (unlike ".com" or even ".fr", the root is a very small zone, easily maintainable manually), it is a political one. IANA blackmails the ccTLD managers: if they do not sign the "sponsorship agreement" (not one in Europe did), even very trivial changes are delayed for ever.