Re: delegation mechanism, Re: Trees have one root

[Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>]

At 11:39 PM 7/31/2002 -0700, Einar Stefferud wrote:
> All of this went very well until ICANN chose to add a new TLD that 
> conflicted with our ORSC .BIZ TLD which was a long time member in good 
> standing in the ORSC "family.

Stef,

This federation that you are describing was formed without any involvement 
of IANA/ICANN.  It was done entirely independently.

So the idea that IANA/ICANN was somehow obligated to coordinate its own 
activities with an independent effort is a very basic non sequitur.

d/

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