Re: First come/First served

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 6:04 PM -0800 11/18/96, Kent Crispin wrote:

> Chris, I seriously respect your position.  But I believe that the
> IAHC *must* ignore prior applications.  There was *no* formal
> application process in place, and to give priority to informal
> applications discriminates against those who patiently waited for the
> issues to be resolved.
>

What about everyone who followed Jon Postel & Bill Manning's advice on
the newdom lists. A year ago, they specifically instructed folk on how
to submit TLD applications, and where to send them (to InterNIC who
would forward them onto IANA). This was way before draft-postel, let
alone the idea of the IAHC. Consequently, IANA has a folder full of
applications. To throw those applications out now is going to be an
inherently costly mistake.

Simon

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