Re: Applications and Public Trust (was Re: Expansion of the IAHC)

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

Simon Higgs writes:
> You say the committee wants input into this process. I'm giving this
> forum my input and my reasoning behind it. What happens? Perry has
> already decided one this "one particular small issue".

When the committee solicited input from the community, the expectation
was that the committee would attempting to be responsive to the
community's views on how the process should be operated going forward
-- not that we were attempting to be responsive about revising
history. Opinions on how the process should be run going forward are
subjective. History, however, is objective, and not subject to change.

The issue in question of whether ISO-3166 domains were handled
differently from other TLDs historically is not a question of opinion
-- it is a question of fact. Either they were handled differently or
they weren't. This question does not have a range of mutable answers
suitable for bending to the "opinions" of the community.  History
doesn't sway depending on community consensus. The past is
immutable. No one -- not me, not you, not anyone -- gets to change the
past to accommodate personal desire.

You note that I have said that I have decided my opinion on this issue
and that I'm not likely to change it. You make it sound as though this
is sinister. In truth, this is no more sinister than my stating that I
know who my A.I. professor was when I was in school, and that I'm
unlikely to change my opinion on that question of fact.


Perry