Re: Conflict resolution?

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 6:08 PM -0800 11/19/96, Christopher Ambler wrote:

> > Actually IANA has said nothing about the applications rather than holding
> > them for future consideration. I have never seen or heard anything from
> > them
> > that "prior use should be a deciding factor". IANA simply kept on telling
> > people to wait, hold on, IAHC will decide.
>

That is not exactly accurate. There were statements made prior to the
concept of the IAHC.

> I have email from IANA, as well as personal correspondence from Jon
> Postel and Bill Manning stating what I have said. I will be happy to
> provide copies of this email if Jon and/or Bill give me permission to do so.
>
> (That is, I find it in very bad taste to post private email, and I don't
> know if these communications were intended to be private or not).
>
> In addition, please see the newdom archives where Bill Manning said that
> he did, indeed, tell us to go online with .WEB for operational testing
> pending approval. Bill now claims that he was speaking for himself and
> not for IANA, yet at the time he was holding an informal meeting at the
> IANA (ISI) offices, about an IANA procedure, and was making statements on
> behalf of IANA all afternoon. He never once said that he was speaking
> for himself rather than for IANA. This can be corroborated by Simon Higgs
> who was also at that meeting.

IANA staff? Speaking about IANA business (including draft-postel)? In
IANA's conference room? It's so hard to tell under those circumstances,
especially when the staff member vanished several times into Jon's
office for answers to questions he wasn't entirely sure of.

Maybe he was really just a spy working for AlterNIC that afternoon.

Nah.

But I won't tell anyone where the envelope came from. It's even more of
a scandal.


Simon

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