Re: [ga] Older registrations

[Craig Simon <cls@flywheel.com>]

Simon Higgs wrote:
> 
> Submissions started in response to this message from Jon Postel:
> 
> http://www.iiia.org/lists/newdom/1995q3/0233.html


That doesn't make sense to me. Submissions started prior to that. In fact, the
first submission was from you (Simon Higgs), dated 14 Sept, and Postel's message
follows on the 18th, a few days later. 

It looks to me like Jon was signalling that he agreed with the idea of adding
new gTLDs, but that he wanted to work on establishing some formal way to mediate
the additions.

And it seems to me that the list he posted in December 1996 was primarily for
informational purposes at the inception of the IAHC deliberations. He repeats
the caveat about the "considerable possibility" that individual requests won't
be granted, but his attempt to show care that all submissions be properly
counted indicates that he was still open to the possibility that some would have
been. Note that there are no requests to describe or verify operational status
of the iTLDs, which nevertheless was part of the process he used for adding new
ccTLDs.

Craig Simon

 
> Hardly a whim. And the period of time of submissions was exactly the length
> of time between the above message and the creation of the IAHC (when IANA
> published their list). This can be verified from the time stamps noted on
> the IANA list (9/14/95 through 11/28/96):
> 
> http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/00990.html
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