[9162] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IAHC Backtracks on Registrar Lottery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rbenn@clark.net)
Wed May 7 15:34:44 1997
From: rbenn@clark.net
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 12:47:55 -0400 (EDT)
To: "Philip J. Nesser II" <pjnesser@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
cc: Stephen Sprunk <spsprunk@paranet.com>, cameo@netsys.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199705071628.AA208562492@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
The PR was actually released by the Internet Society.
Randy
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Philip J. Nesser II wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
>