Re: ISO 3166 namespace administration

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 12:12 PM -0500 12/28/96, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

You're not off the hook that easily. I couldn't give a monkey's left
whatever over the politics of the UAE delegation, but I'd still like to
hear a definitive answer to this question. I've never heard the answer
in spite of several years work on newdom.

You stood up at the newdom bof and danced around this question without
actually answering it. Many people in the room expressed that they
would like to see shared registries under the ISO-3166 domains, and you
made up a pitiful excuse and expressed your willingness for I* to lose
*ALL* control over this part of the namespace. I'm very glad to see
that the other members of the IAHC saw fit to place a consistent set of
guidelines for the ISO delegations in the draft. That is one section I
agree whole heartedly with.

Kevin Brown asks: "Can you reply and reconfirm that all ISO TLDs are
delegated to sovereign bodies? Cary seems to think, as I do , that
there is a mis mash of
delegations out there. Perry you re convinced that Delegations were given
to sovereign bodies."

Thank you.

> Kevin Brown writes:
> > Can you reply and reconfirm that all ISO TLDs are[...]
>
> Kevin;
>
> I realize that you have an Idee Fixe of some sort that prevents you
> from ever leaving the subject of your desire to have the .AE domain
> reassigned against the will of the government of the United Arab
> Emirates, or your notion that the IANA could somehow successfully
> involve itself in an internal UAE legal dispute. You've repeatedly
> been told that you should seek satisfaction within the courts and
> other mechanisms available inside the UAE, and from what I can tell
> you have no interest in pursuing matters that way.
>
> I've answered you over and over and its done no good, so I don't think
> there is any call for more replies on my part any time soon.
>
>
> Perry
> Speaking for myself, and not for the IAHC


Regards,

Simon

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