Re: Future of IANA (and IETF)

[Gordon Cook <cook at netaxs.com>]

I hope someone Dave will put some of the archives on line.  Ambler's
account is factual.  Your blythe disregard for facts more than six months
old is one of the most scary things about the MOUvement approach.

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On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Dave Crocker wrote:

> 
> >Hold on just one minute, please. Sir, what you say above it just
> >patently untrue, and I must point it out.
> >
> >In July of 1996, Image Online Design formulated a proposal and 
> >pursued it with IANA. IANA told Image Online Design to put our
> >proposed registry (.WEB) online for operational testing. Image
> 
> Sorry.  I don't recall seeing the IODesign proposal on the net or the
> attendant public discussion about it or the development of public support
> for it or...  well, you get the idea I hope.
> 
> It is also important to keep in mind the evolution of this topic.  Way back
> in the dark ages, like the at the start of the IAHC work the belief was
> that it was appropriate to have one, public interest registry.  As I've
> said before, my own thinking starting changing only this Spring.  I don't
> recall when my own postings started suggesting the option of multiple
> registries, but I'd guess at least 6 months.
> 
> In any event, the IODesign approach is in the for-profit category and so I,
> for one, still do not support it.
> 
> >Only afterwards was the gTLD MoU created, and the IAHC
> >chose .WEB as one of the 7 recommended, knowing full well
> >that Image Online Design was running .WEB. Regardless of
> 
> Whatever IODesign was doing, it had nothing to do with the IANA-authorized
> DNS and so it was irrelevant to the work of the IAHC.  But do we really
> need to rehash what a judge already wrote such unkind things about?
> 
> d/
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