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Re: Thread 1: Sharing

At 6:26 PM -0800 12/24/96, Kent Crispin wrote:

> Christopher Ambler allegedly said:
> >
> > >1)	FCFS recognition for EXISTING registries (again, ALL of them,
> > >	IANA-recognized or not) in the order which they ACTUALLY went
> > >	constructively online.
> >
> > While I am naturally in favour of this, there has been some dissention.
> > Can anyone give a reason why this is unfair? Please do say that what
> > the current registries are doing is 'rogue' or 'unrecognizable,' since
> > that's an opinion that is contested. Why, in objective terms, would
> > it be unfair to allow those registries who have demonstrated a working
> > system to be given recognition in the selection of registrars?
>
> Because it would discriminate against those who took the copiously
> offered advice of the IANA that they weren't really ready to process
> applications yet.  You have claimed that in private conversations
> Bill Manning said something might be construed as grudging permission
> to do something, not clear what.  However, there has never been a single
> *public* pronouncement to that effect, and there have been *many*
> public pronouncements to the contrary -- you recall, perhaps, the
> line "In other words, don't count on it"?
>

Fer crying out loud...

I sat in the IANA conference room next to Chris Ambler and we went
through this six months ago.

Bill Manning said very clearly that IANA had a folder full of TLD
applications (now released by Jon) and recommended that those who could
show an operationally viable registry when the time came to process the
applications would be processed more efficiently than those who were
still in start-up. The consensus in the IANA conference room was to go
ahead and set-up the registries on an experimental basis.

> So to accept the prior applications would discriminate against every
> single person who took IANA's public pronouncements to heart.  That
> would indeed be grossly unfair.
>

Damned if you do. Damned if you don't.

Cute.

Regards,

Simon

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