Re: [ga] Older registrations

[John Charles Broomfield <jbroom@manta.outremer.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."
> 
> --
> Christopher Ambler
> chris@the.web

Anyone for ".atlantis"?

Yours, John Broomfield.
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