Re: [ga] Older registrations

["Christopher Ambler" <cambler@iodesign.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.

What Jon said in public and what he said in private are two different
things. Often,
he would tell someone to do something to see how it went, and, upon seeing
that, he would say the same thing in public to encourage more.

> 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.

Precisely. What Simon posted was the very beginning.

> 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.

You would be amazed to find out what Jon intended the Ad-Hoc committee
to be. I am reminded of the words of Don Heath, when told that it was a good
thing that IANA's Ad-Hoc committee was being formed, who said, "Oh, no,
this isn't THAT Ad-Hoc committee."

The rest of the history we all know.

--
Christopher Ambler
chris@the.web

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