Re: [ga] Re: Another senseless rejection of the pioneering work of Jon Postel

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 05:59:24PM -0700, Simon Higgs wrote:
> At 02:00 PM 7/7/00 -0700, Rick H Wesson wrote:
> 
> You have caused an immense disservice to ICANN in the past 24 hours,

Eh?

> and 
> you've been called on it by a number of people. They may not have been 
> polite or righteous, but they were ultimately responding to your mistrust 
> and dishonesty.
> 
> >in 1994 through 1996 the IANA guidance was experemental, and the IAHC came
> >out of all that.
> 
> The IAHC rejected the prior IANA work and got sued (IOD).

Suit thrown out.

> Then the DoC, 
> recognizing the inequity the IAHC had created in the process, stepped in 
> and invalidated the IAHC and tore up the gTLD-MoU. Remember? NSI and IANA 
> got sued again (PGPMedia)

Lost.

> and IANA gave it's discretional authority back to 
> the DoC to avoid litigation. The result (more than I have time to write 
> here)

Pity.  Your fantasies are so entertaining.


-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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