Re: [wg-c] historical trivia (getting to the Shepperd/Kleiman "p

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

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On 15-Mar-2000 Paul Garrin wrote:
>>William Walsh wrote: 
>> Name.space and any of the operators of alternative TLDs have no right to
>> expect
>> introduction or prior use rights here.  None.
>>[...]
> 
> Do you care to back this up with some facts?

Most certainly.  When you can show me that the US Govt. gave you an indication
that if you went ahead with operations you could expect to get added to the
root servers, which were controlled by them even then, then you can refute
this.  The NSF made it clear that not even IANA at that time could grant that
sanction.

These are facts, Paul.  You have no sanction, and no legitimate reason to
believe you would ever have any rights in the namespace.  As for your own root
namespace, have fun, do whatever you want.  It has no basis here.

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