Re: First come/First served

[Aveek Datta <MoNoLiTH+@CMU.EDU>]

Excerpts from newdom: 18-Nov-96 Re: First come/First served by
Christopher Ambler@iodes 
> But you also have the problem that IANA took applications under their draft
> proposal and made many promises that they have handed off to the IAHC.
> Whether the IAHC honours these promises or not is up to them, of course, but
> you do have business entities (and I'll admit, we're one) that have had
> applications in to IANA for quite some time when they were in charge.
To throw
> them out and consider everything that has passed to be null and void would
> be reckless at best.
>  
> I would propose a policy statement such that if an application were submitted
> to IANA, and the applicant meets the criteria set down by IAHC for running
> a registry, that they are given priority for the iTLD as applied to IANA. To
> do otherwise would be saying that IANA had no authority at the time, and if
> that's the case, how did they have authority to enter into the agreement with
> ISOC to form the IAHC? Hot potato indeed.

You raise a valid point. I've gotten a reply from IANA with an official
policy statement from their webpages (sent to me by Jon Postel). The web
page basically says "the IAHC decides if IANA applications are honored".
IANA made the first wrong move by accepting applications in any form
at all. Now they're going to pay, in one way or the other, for their
mistake. From what you've told me Chris, you do have a case, at least that
the IANA did not make the process clear. 

Whether that an IANA application gives you priority, and what does
"priority" mean is two questions that the IAHC must decide.

They weren't kidding when they said "Let the games begin."

Aveek



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