Re: Prior Use - Experimental registries

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

Simon Higgs writes:
> 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?
> 
> 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 believe that the ISO TLDs and the US Government TLDs have never been
in the same class as the iTLDs. The fact that applications for ISO
TLDs have been processed over the last year and likely will continue
to be processed is unrelated to the question of how non ISO two letter
TLDs such as the iTLDs are being handled.

In other words, the example of Jersey & Guernsey isn't a very good
one.

Perry
PS Speaking for myself, not the IAHC.