On the DotPH Comments to the NTC Proposed Guidelines on the Administration of the Philippine Country Code Top Level Domain

Horacio T. Cadiz

16 April 2004

Abstract:

The current administrator of the Philippine Country Code Top-Level Domain Name (PH ccTLD) Mr Jose Disini and his company DotPH submitted to the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) a position paper entitled Additional Comments on NTC Proposed Guidelines on the Administration of the .PH ccTLD(Disini Paper) on 30 March 2004 in criticism of the The NTC Proposed Guidelines (The Guidelines) of February 2004.

The author has written this paper, in an attempt to answer the objections raised in the Disini Paper and correct the fallacies it contains. For the benefit of the reader, the Disini Paper is reproduced in its entirety in Appendix A. On the date that this paper was written, that Disini Paper could also be found in the DotPH company's web site http://www.domains.
ph/news.asp although without the footnotes found in their original submission to the NTC. Unless otherwise noted, all quotations are taken from the Disini Paper as submitted by DotPH to the NTC during the Second Public Hearing, as found in Appendix A.

Although the author sits as an observer in the NTC Advisory Board (Adboard) and has been present in all its meetings, the author does not claim that the thoughts and arguments contained in this paper are shared by any member of the Adboard. This paper is not an Adboard document and does not reflect the official views of the Adboard nor that of the NTC.