RE: [wg-c] straw vote -- question one results & call for votes on remaining questions

[Mikki Barry <ooblick@netpolicy.com>]

>Thank you for adding substantiation to my assertion:
>
>At 09:54 AM 8/30/99 , Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>>I guarantee that you won't get a single existing RSC to say that this is
>>so. Every one of us enhances the IANA root, but we do NOT replace it. We
>
>When one works independently of a thing, implements entirely 
>different policies from it, and depends upon gaining support by 
>replacing the direct users of that thing, then one is seeking to 
>replace that thing.


I thought that was called "competition" and is exactly one of the 
most loudly stated goals of  the Commerce Dept.

>
>It does not matter what language the alternate-root operators use; 
>it matters how they act.
>
>>Besides, the IANA is much more than the root-zone, as all of us know.
>>That we don't recognise IANA's authority to restrict the root-zone we
>
>If one does not acknowledge the authority of a thing -- actually it 
>was more strong than "not acknowledging", since those operators 
>typically claimed that IANA had no authority -- and one seeks to 
>take on that authority for oneself, then one is seeking to replace 
>that thing.

This just simply doesn't follow.  "Authority" is meaningless here.