[9485] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Changing the Rules...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Hurst)
Thu May 22 12:47:54 1997
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 11:35:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Marc Hurst <mhurst@fastlane.ca>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
cc: perry@piermont.com, newdom@ar.com, isp-marketing@sparknet.net,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199705221610.MAA00111@jekyll.piermont.com>
It appears we have been arguing the same point...
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> Marc Hurst writes:
> > > So? As soon as the Canadian Government directs the IANA to delegate ".ca"
> > > to Skyscape I am sure the IANA will change the delegation. Your statement
> > > has no relevance to this discussion.
> >
> > The Canadian government had zero input in the selection of the University
> > of British Columbia having this authority.
>
> The way it works is simple.
>
> When a government directs the IANA to change a delegation for a
> country domain, it gets changed.
>
> If the government chooses not to give direction, IANA delegates to the
> best organization it can.
>
> Whether the Canadian government chose to get involved is immaterial --
> if it chose, it would be obeyed.
>
> This whole thing started because some idiot called IANA listening to
> the Hatian government's request about the disposition of .HT an "abuse
> of power". Perhaps the reassignment was due to Hatian corruption, but
> that isn't within the power of the IANA to control, and certainly the
> IANA doesn't get any benefit out of the situation.
>
>
>
> Perry
> Speaking personally, and not in any official capacity
>
