"Acceptance" of money

["Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>]

What incredibly stupid time wasting over words.  In normal English usage, 
if he didn't cash the check, he didn't accept any money.  But it doesn't 
matter.  If you believe you have a legally binding agreement with IANA, 
and want to enforce it, go to court.  Otherwise, we should assume a 
clean slate where "earlier filings" are merely facts that may be given 
zero or much weight or anything in between, as decided by IAHC/IANA.

Donald

On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Christopher Ambler wrote: 

> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 96 11:13:31 PST
> From: Christopher Ambler <chris@hal.iodesign.com>
> To: ROBERT.SHAW@ITU.CH, iahc-discuss@iahc.org
> Subject: Re: Conflict resolution?
> 
> >Sigh...hate to see this get rehashed again and again but just so that 
> >iahc-discuss subscribers don't get mislead, this was the message that 
> >Jon Postel of IANA sent to several lists after this 'incident'...
> >
> >>Hello:
> >>
> >>The suggestion that the IANA is accepting money to reserve new
> >>top-level domain is completely false.
> >>
> >>The IANA has not accepted any money in any form from anyone for domain
> >>name registration, name reservation, or other top level domain related
> >>function.
> >>
> >>--jon.
> 
> Robert, I have to tell you that this is, in no uncertain terms, a lie.
> 
> I have an envelope, sealed, with our check returned to us from IANA.
> The fact that they returned it would tend to indicate that they accepted
> it in the first place. Bill Manning took the envelope from my hand in
> the IANA offices, in the presence of witnesses.
> 
> Perhaps if Jon had said, in his email, that IANA accepted our check but
> decided to return it, things would be different. But that's not what he
> said, is it?
> 
> --
> Christopher Ambler
> President, Image Online Design, Inc.
> 
> 

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