[wg-c] IODesign history

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

My reason for responding to Chris' original note was for the benefit of 
those not familiar with this tired topic.  Chris is insisting on rehashing 
the details.  I'll keep my counter-response as brief and will end my part 
of this thread:

At 08:26 AM 2/5/2000 , Christopher Ambler wrote:
>The source is the late Jon Postel.
>The witnesses are Mr. Eugene Kashpureff, Mr. Marc Hurst,
>...

Notably, Jon said he carefully did not attend the referenced meeting.  (As 
I recall, he told me that there were efforts to call him into it and he 
pointedly declined.)  Equally notably is that simply listing attendees does 
not verify their support for Chris' claim.

A copy of the result of the closest "objective" test on this issue is 
available is documented at 
<http://www.brandenburg.co,/misc/iodesign-judge.txt>.  Chris will raise 
various objections to this citation, of course.

The reason Chris is so forceful about this issue is that he cites it as a 
legal basis for entrance into the IANA DNS.  Noitably, IODesign ignored 
direction from Postel to remove this claimed authorization from their web page.

>Additionally, there are posted messages from the late Jon
>Postel to the "newdom" lists, also suggesting that those
>who wished to create new TLDs create their own roots.
>
>There are also suggestions, though some might say they were
>posted in jest, from IAHC members posted to the IAHC list.

Chris appears to have difficulty distinguishing a personal and informal 
observation that if one wishes to do something, they should go do it, 
versus "formal authorization".  By contrast Postel was quite careful, over 
the 15 years of his creation and stewardship of IANA, to make formal 
declarations quite formally, often in a way that created self-conscious 
humor amongst recipients.

>I don't question the late Jon Postel's authority in this
>instance.

Boy does that qualifier speak volumes!

d/

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