[ga-full] RE: About .eu - Was: Re: [ga] Meeting on the creation of .EU TLD

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

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On 20-Mar-2000 Simon Higgs wrote:
> IANA had the authority to introduce new TLDs into the root, as evidenced by 
> the introduction of ccTLDs during the same time period. This was part of 
> their NSF contract.

NSF was explicit on this point.  IANA had authority to introduce the ISO-3166
ccTLDs, but that authority did not extend to gTLDs, and the NSF made this clear
to NSI, Simon.

As such, any "authority" granted by IANA was non-existant and invalid, just
like Joe Baptista's authority.

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