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It has been noted that many of the problems that the EC has addressed must also involve conversations with [[IANA]] and the U.S. Government, who are ultimately the end points of updates and relegation processes. Thus, its identification of problems and its implementation plans seem to be simplistic and are not addressed to all necessary parties.<ref>[http://nigel.je/ Nigel Roberts' blog post, Nigel.je]</ref> Furthermore, it is noted that ICANN ''must'' be involved in ccTLD operations, to fulfill its original mandate to create a global Internet and protect it from any singular influence. Therefore, the EC's request that ICANN extricate itself from the running of any nation's ccTLD is implausible. Milton Mueller worries that the EC seems to desire that any state control a name space associated with it, which raises questions for second-level domains that use a geographic name but do not represent that region (i.e., amazon.com). Overall, it could be argued that the EC is trying to give each state the right to wield its ccTLD in anyway it desires, without concern to the integrity of the root and the volatility of political solutions.<ref>[http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/9/21/4904077.html IGP Blog]</ref>

It has been noted that many of the problems that the EC has addressed must also involve conversations with [[IANA]] and the U.S. Government, who are ultimately the end points of updates and relegation processes. Thus, its identification of problems and its implementation plans seem to be simplistic and are not addressed to all necessary parties.<ref>[http://nigel.je/ Nigel Roberts' blog post, Nigel.je]</ref> Furthermore, it is noted that ICANN ''must'' be involved in ccTLD operations, to fulfill its original mandate to create a global Internet and protect it from any singular influence. Therefore, the EC's request that ICANN extricate itself from the running of any nation's ccTLD is implausible. Milton Mueller worries that the EC seems to desire that any state control a name space associated with it, which raises questions for second-level domains that use a geographic name but do not represent that region (i.e., amazon.com). Overall, it could be argued that the EC is trying to give each state the right to wield its ccTLD in anyway it desires, without concern to the integrity of the root and the volatility of political solutions.<ref>[http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/9/21/4904077.html IGP Blog]</ref>

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