[9175] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IAHC Backtracks on Registrar Lottery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Wed May 7 17:47:37 1997
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 16:15:31 -0500
From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
To: perry@piermont.com
Cc: Cameo Wood <cameo@netsys.com>, nanog@merit.edu, newdom@ar.com,
edns-discuss@mcs.net
In-Reply-To: <199705071826.OAA04401@jekyll.piermont.com>; from Perry E. Metzger on Wed, May 07, 1997 at 02:26:33PM -0400
On Wed, May 07, 1997 at 02:26:33PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> Cameo Wood writes:
> > 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.
>
> There is no IAHC any more. The IAHC finished its work and disbanded.
>
> The rest of your posting is also a mischaracterization. The POC and
> PAB folks announced that we're exploring removing the limits -- no
> formal proposal has yet been made.
>
> Perry
> speaking personally, and not in any official capacity
So David Crocker did not tell the truth in the panel discussion yesterday at
N+I (at which I and others spoke?)
Either it has been removed or it has not. If it has, then it has. If it
has not, then saying that it has in a public forum with video cameras
rolling is misleading AT BEST.
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