Re: Conflict resolution?

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 11:52 AM -0800 11/20/96, Michael Dillon wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Christopher Ambler wrote:
>
> > >I fail to see why the Internet community should grant you a monopoly
> > >simply because you have based a business plan on that monopoly status.
> >
> > Initially, I would say because IANA accepted applications for this,
>
> IANA did not accept applications for iTLD registries.

Nice fantasy. Wrong answer. At least 2 new TLDs (for Jersey & Guernsey)
have been processed and placed into the root since the original newdom
list started.

> Many people on the
> newdom list wanted to know what they could do before the iTLD plans were
> finalized and Bill Manning suggested that they could fill out an Internic
> application for for an iTLD in order to get a publicly recognized
> timestamp on it and forward that timestamped rejection notice to IANA.
> However it was always quite clear that this did *NOT* constitute an
> application for an iTLD registry according to the Postel draft for several
> reasons.
>

IANA gave out specific instructions for TLD applicants.  There was no
draft-postel back then. There wasn't even the draft-ybmk (sp?)
predecessor.

Simon

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