RE: [ga] This should settle it.

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

First, you're wrong. Read it again. It says that IANA had the
authority.

Second, if you don't know who George Strawn is, then you really
don't know your history on this.

I've made my point.

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Christopher Ambler
chris@the.web


-----Original Message-----
From: William X. Walsh [mailto:william@userfriendly.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 7:37 PM
To: Christopher Ambler
Cc: ga@dnso.org
Subject: RE: [ga] This should settle it.


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On 31-Mar-2000 Christopher Ambler wrote:
> William, here's your direct, spelled-out authority. Up until April 4,
1997,
> IANA had the authority to add new TLDs. On that date, Postel
> chose to (wisely) disavow any authority.

No it is not.  The only thing this does is defer to RFC1591, which merely
says
that if someone wanted to apply, they may, and told them how to do that, but
it
did not say that those applications were going to be recognized or carry any
authority or preference or anything else.

Also, I would like some more background on the person who is giving this
testimony, and what his source of authority is on this.


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