Re: [ga] Older registrations

["Christopher Ambler" <cambler@iodesign.com>]

> > Semantics. When two out of four IANA employees tell others to go ahead
and
> > submit an application, and even go so far as to tell them how to go
about
> > that process, even informally, I'd call that something "semantically
> > similar" to a solicitation.
>
> If you ask how can you have an island given to you by the Government of
> Malaysia, and there is no clear procedure and a Malaysian government
official
> tells you "send an application", you don't immediately presume that you
will
> be given an island or if you do you are very naive.

But if the government official also has said, in public, "we're working on
the
procedure for giving away islands, here is a draft, please work on it with
us, and also, if you could swim out to the island that you want and build
a city, that might show us how it would work. Naturally, if you build the
city, and it works, that would be the island that this process would grant
you."

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Christopher Ambler
chris@the.web

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