RE: [wg-c] Re: nine principles for domain names

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

> From: owner-wg-c@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-c@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Dave
> Crocker
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 8:24 AM
> To: cambler@iodesign.com
> Cc: wg-c@dnso.org
> Subject: RE: [wg-c] Re: nine principles for domain names
>
>
> At 08:04 AM 2/23/2000 -0800, Christopher Ambler wrote:
> >Dave Said...
> > >registry assert ownership  rights over the name, but that is not the
> > >history of the DNS, nor is it an  appropriate model.
> >
> >That is your opinion. I, and many others, do not share it. Please stop
> >presenting it as fact, as that is not constructive to the discussion.
>
> If you are claiming that it IS in the history of the DNS, please
> document it.
>
> If you are objecting to the latter clause, please state the basis for
> declaring it unacceptable to have opinions stated, especially when in
> response to a specific proposal.
>
> Remember that I was responding to a proposal to have registries do the
> choosing.  How is it "not constructive" to respond to that specific?

It wasn't the statement that was a problem. It is the presumption, on your
part, that they were a foregone conclusion. I also find this objectionable
and not constructive.