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

["Roeland M. J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

In this particulat case, what you want is only available via FOIA request
against the NSF, or DOC/NTIA. Do you want to foot the bill?

As far as ORSC files go, I have my own copies. How can they be slanted? At
the time, no particular weight was given to the data.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William X. Walsh [mailto:william@userfriendly.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 10:27 PM
> To: Roeland M. J. Meyer
> Cc: Simon Higgs; ga@dnso.org; Christopher Ambler
> Subject: RE: [ga] About GA membership again......
>
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> On 29-Mar-2000 Roeland M. J. Meyer wrote:
> > William, you want proof from an eye witness? Are you saying
> that Chris is
> > either lieing or doesn't remember? What level of proof do you want?
> >
> > I remember the same things as Chris and Simon, from a
> different perspctive.
> > I know for fact that NSF handed the whole mess over to
> IANA, just like Chris
> > said. Although, the only one that might still have written
> proof is Simon.
>
> Where are the documents, Roeland?   I'll settle for
> references to real official
> documents.  That's really not too much to ask, is it?
>
> > I think that you can find some of the info in the ORSC
> archives. However, I
> > think that you are taking the challenge for proof to absurd
> heights. This is
>
> The ORSC archives contain the ORSC's take on the issue, which
> is far from the
> actual factual accounting of what happened, and the real, not
> presumed,
> authority behind it.
>
> Mailing lists are not documents that prove authority, they
> only present the
> opinions of the members of those lists.  When I see a
> document from the NSF
> that specifically states that IANA had the authority to
> introduce new gTLDS
> (something even Sexton has recently said they didn't have on a usenet
> discussion with Jon Postel's brother) I will be satisified.
>
> Anything else is just more presumption, which is what led to
> these problems to
> begin with.
>
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