[ga-abuse] Re: [wg-c] Proposed gTLDs: The IAHC Seven

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.net>]

At 08:58 PM 4/10/00 -0700, you wrote:

I find this email from Dave Crocker totally insulting. Please address it 
immediately.

>At 08:01 PM 4/10/00 -0700, Simon Higgs wrote:
>>Don't be. You were right the first time. The POC made a collective policy 
>>decision to accept pre-sold domain names. This was not an action limited 
>>to individual registrars, but an action sanctioned by the POC:
>>http://www.gtld-mou.org/docs/faq.html#2.4
>>"There have been some suggestions that POC ban registrars from taking 
>>"pre-registrations". After carefully considering this, POC decided not to 
>>ban pre-registrations as it could not prevent other third parties 
>>(non-CORE members) from queuing registrations and submitting them through 
>>a CORE registrar. And indeed, there are many companies doing exactly this."
>
>
>Time for some remedial lessons in basic thinking:
>
>Simon's logic is:
>
>         1.  The POC chose not to get involved in a topic.
>
>         2.  Therefore the POC is claimed to have made "a collective 
> policy decision to accept pre-sold domain names".
>
>Try to imagine logic lessons in early math classes, and then try to 
>imagine passing the course with this sort of sloppy analysis.
>
>d/
>
>
>
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