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 Dave Crocker wrote:
>>I would also make a position for CORE as a registry, as they are a
>>business entity that spent considerable money to create their registry
> 
> More importantly, CORE was created out of a formal IANA activity -- IANA 
> initiated and IANA endorsed -- and provided with oversight by POC.
> 
> Not quite the same as the rogue efforts by others.

Sure it is.  IANA had no such authority.  It's endorsement was no better than
if someone like Howard Stern had endorsed it.   If IANA had the authority, then
the NSF would not have directed NSI to ignore any new gTLD requests from IANA.

There are equal as far as that goes.

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