Re: [ga] About GA membership again......

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

All assembly members,

  Indeed as WXW states here the NSF was the only Govt agency that had
authority to grant any new TLD's to be added, but were so unaware
at the time they had no idea as to the nature of the situation ongoing or
if such new TLD's were even possible to be added to the current legacy
Root structure.  Hence any consideration from NSF would have had to
be recommended to them from the IANA at the time frame's in question
here.

William X. Walsh wrote:

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> On 27-Mar-2000 Christopher Ambler wrote:
> >> Yes, the USG did create a process that bears their imprimatur.  They still
> > have
> >>  to approve the results, as a matter of fact.
> >
> > The USG created a process for ICANN over the past couple of years. But
> > we're talking about 1995 and 1996 here, when IANA was presumably in
> > charge. You're saying that they were not in charge. If they were not in
> > charge, then who was? Please show me the "authorized process" that
> > was in place in 1995. I followed IANA. You're now telling me that IANA
> > was not the "authorized process." I don't agree, but I'm willing to concede
> > the point if you can document yours.
> >
> > Christopher
>
> There was no explicit process, Chris.  But the absence of a process does not
> lend legitimization to an otherwise unsanctioned process.  And in any event,
> the real process would have been to get the approval of the NSF.  They were the
> only ones empowered to grant authorization to add new gTLDs at that time.
>
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Regards,

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