[9210] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IAHC Backtracks on Registrar Lottery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Thu May 8 01:02:16 1997
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 07:58:27 +0300 (IDT)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>
To: Todd Graham Lewis <lists@reflections.eng.mindspring.net>
cc: Cameo Wood <cameo@netsys.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970507110401.573A-100000@reflections.eng.mindspring.net>
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 1997, Cameo Wood wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> 1) URL, por favor?
>
> 2) So there will be an unlimited number of registrars? I thought that
> everyone meeting the financial and technical qualifications was _already_
> eligible (if they applied), and that the lottery would determine which of
> them _became_ registrars.
Exactly as you stated. An applicant still has to be qualified as per the
previous rules. It is just that after you are qualified - there is no
lottery and you become part of the Council Of REgistrars.
>
> Call me confused.
>
> __
> Todd Graham Lewis MindSpring Enterprises tlewis@mindspring.com
>
Hank Nussbacher
iPOC member
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