Re: Prior Use - Experimental registries

["Stephane F. Kallos" <skallos@interfusion.net>]

> At 12:02 PM +0000 11/22/96, Stephane F. Kallos wrote:
> 
> > How are applications to the IANA relevant when there was no actual
> >request for
> > applications?
> >

Simon Higgs wrote: 
> That's not a true statement at all. There has always been a procedure
> for applying for a TLD. It has been very informal because there were so
> few requests for them (up until now). I used Jersey & Guernsey as
> examples because they were created while other applications sat and
> waited for the IAHC.
> 

I still believe what I said above to be correct considering Jon Postel's recent 
post:

        Request sent to the IANA for a new top level domain will be
        filed with the many other requests.  There is some considerable
        possibility that this particular request will not be granted
        (in simple words -- don't plan on it).

Did IANA request that interested parties send in these applications?
I don't think so.  Nor is it the impression that the above statement gives.  
But if I'm wrong, my apologies.

Stephane

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