Re: [ga] Dave: "they are free"

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

> But this not because they are good or bad: because otherwise everybody will 
> feel authorized to wake up one nice morning, and claim an ASCII string (and 
> soon Unicode string) as proprietary and, in name of the sacred principles, 
> be allowed in the root.

And if they meet clear and objective technical and operational criteria,
why shouldn't they be allowed? Set the criteria as high as you like, as
long as it's objective and applied across the board.

Funny, that's exactly what Jon Postel wanted in 1995. Everything since
has been politics.

Christopher

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