RE: Another senseless rejection of the pioneering work of Jon Postel(was RE: [ga] last word on .earth, .usa, and .z)

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

I think that we both do and it is NOT helped by your inflammatory
behavior.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick H Wesson [mailto:wessorh@ar.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 2:00 PM
> To: Simon Higgs
> Cc: ga@dnso.org; Roeland M.J. Meyer
> Subject: Re: Another senseless rejection of the pioneering work
of Jon
> Postel(was RE: [ga] last word on .earth, .usa, and .z)
>
>
>
> Simon,
>
> in 1994 through 1996 the IANA guidance was experemental, and
> the IAHC came
> out of all that. I have alot of respect for the folks that
> tried to move
> things allong, that had no interntion to use the corts or had
> the grand
> desire of wealth. I don't think the iTLD movements are
> applicable 4 to 6
> years later, not internet-years (remember the term?) regular
years!
>
> This is the year 2000, we should have setteled all those
> issues along time
> ago. Its all history if we can just move on now, please ?!?
>
> this is NOW, not 1995. we need one root and we need those
> same folks that
> wanted new gTLD back in 1995 to realize that it took along
> time and the
> Internet is not the same as it ws back then. I wish you would
> realize we
> are finally comming up to a real chance to get additional
> gTLDs inserted
> into the IANA roots.
>
> Don't you remember how all this started?
>
>
> -rick
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Simon Higgs wrote:
>
> > At 11:19 AM 7/7/00 -0700, Rick H Wesson wrote:
> > >On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> > >
> > > > PgMedia is rogue, ORSC isn't.
> > > > If you don't know what I'm talking about you can go to
the
> > > > archives from just a few weeks ago.
> > >
> > >I apply the term rogue to any organization that premotes
> the sale of
> > >DNS labels that are not in the ICANN root.
> >
> > So...
> >
> > ...you reject, as "rogue", the experimental iTLD work of
> Jon Postel and
> > IANA prior to the IAHC formation, correct?
> >
> > ...you reject, as "rogue", the IANA guidance from 1995 and
> 1996 (including
> > legal disclaimers provided by IANA to non-IANA-root
> registries) which
> > established the early registry pioneers, correct?
> >
> > You get flamed for good reasons, Rick.
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Simon Higgs
> >
> > --
> > It's a feature not a bug...
> >

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