Re: [ga] Older Registrations

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

William and all assembly members,

William X. Walsh wrote:

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> On 31-Mar-2000 Jeff Williams wrote:
> > William and all assembly members,
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> >   Look WXW, the authority was implied or indirect, not explicit or
> > direct.  So why nit pick this?  Just to make a point that if not
> > explicit and direct, authority didn't exist?  Hardly a reasonable
> > argument, and certainly not reasonable.  The only fuzzy point is
> > whom had authority to add any TLD's to the Root itself.  That was
> > definitely NSI, and they proved it years ago.
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> NSI???  :)     I think we can safely have consensus that NSI doesn't have and
> never had that authority.

  Authority, maybe not.  But when the IAHC/gTLD-MoU folks tried to
get their 7 favorite TLD's added NSI refused.  And they were not
overridden by the NSF at that time.  Hence, it seems clear, that NSI
may not have had the authority, but exercised serious influence at least.

>  The directive NSF issued to ignore any IANA requests
> for new TLDs that were not ccTLDs is quite clear on just who held the control.

  That is agreed.  But the IANA with the approval of NSF a the time was
supposed to have the authority in fact, but NSI had control of the Roots,
at that time which gave them the real authority to make the determination
much to the IANA''s and CORE's dislike, if you recall.

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> If IANA had the authority, we wouldn't be sitting here having this conversation
> on this list.  We would have had 7 new gTLDs added some years ago.

  Maybe, and maybe not. NSI had operational control, and thus shared
the authority IMHO with the IANA.  The fact that NSI refused to add
new TLD's that IANA/CORE requested, is evident of this, but not
definitively documented as such.  It was none the less implied.

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