[9153] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IAHC Backtracks on Registrar Lottery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip J. Nesser II)
Wed May 7 12:43:10 1997
From: "Philip J. Nesser II" <pjnesser@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
To: spsprunk@paranet.com (Stephen Sprunk)
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 12:28:10 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: cameo@netsys.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970507105714.00735da8@pop.srv.paranet.com> from "Stephen Sprunk" at May 7, 97 10:57:14 am
Stephen,
The announcement came from the iPOC which is really the old IAHC members
(minus the ex-officaio ones) until the real POC is formed. This has lead
to some confusion and attribution of things to the IAHC which as you
correctly point out, has been disolved.
---> Phil
Stephen Sprunk supposedly said:
>
> I fail to see how it is possible that the IAHC announced anything this
> week; the IAHC was dissolved on 1 May 97 when the gTLD-MoU was signed.
>
> There is absolutely nothing to the effect of your statement on the IAHC web
> page (http://www.iahc.org/), and there is no new IETF draft from the
> (dissolved) IAHC in the InterNIC archives.
>
> Where did this information come from?
>
> Stephen
>
>
> At 10:47 07 05 97 -0400, Cameo Wood wrote:
> >Acting only five days after its highly publicized adoption of a new system
> >of registering new domain names, the International Ad Hoc Committee
> >announced Tuesday that it will remove its limit on registrars. Under a
> >memorandum of understanding signed last week, the IAHC limited the number
> >of name registrars to 28 worldwide, to be selected by lottery. Citing
> >"consistent and universal criticism," the IAHC announced that any service
> >meeting financial and technical qualifications will be eligible to become
> >a registrar. No lottery will be held.
>
>
