Re: [ga] Older Registrations

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

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On 31-Mar-2000 Christopher Ambler wrote:
>> On 31-Mar-2000 Christopher Ambler wrote:
>> > I've never said it grows out of vacuum. I've said that the NSF gave IANA
>> > authority over numeric and alphanumeric identifiers.
>>
>> Nothing in those documents gave them authority over ALL domain
> identifiers.
>> The ones I saw were clearly in the context of IP Address management.
> There
>> document never clearly gave them authority over all domain identifiers, at
>> least not the ones that actually came from the USG and weren't written by
>> others or IANA itself.
> 
> It also didn't give them control over protocol port identifiers, but that's
> another
> thing they were doing for years and years. Shall that authority now be
> rolled
> back, too?
> 
> Get realistic here, your argument falls flat when you start claiming that if
> it's
> not spelled out it doesn't exist.
> 

No, it doesn't, Chris.  Delegated authority doesn't exist in a vacuum, it is
really quite simple.   Go ask Richard Sexton if you want someone who is more
inline with your position and he will tell you the same thing.  I notice you
never responded to that point.

If it isn't spelled out, it can't exist, Chris.  At the very minimum it should
be implied in the documents, and its not even to that level.  Take yourself
apart from it for a minute, and stop reading them from the assumption that the
authority exists.  You will get a much better understanding

The documents are clear in their full context.  Like you, I urge people to read
the surrounding text, and see exactly what was being discussed..

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