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

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

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On 16-Mar-2000 Christopher Ambler wrote:
> These are facts, and nobody disputes them. The postings by Postel and
> Manning are still available as is the IANA list.

This would be fine IF IANA had the authority to do that.  They never had such
explicit authority, they presumed to be able to do something they couldn't. 
The NSF made it very clear even before the DoC got involved that NSI was not to
add any new gTLDs at IANA's behest, only with the NSF's approval.

The fact remains that there is nothing to sanction those activities.  I can
grant you permission to run a registry, Chris.  But that doesn't make your
registry any more legitimate unless I actually have the authority to make it
happen.

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