Re: ISO 3166 namespace administration

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Simon and all,

Simon Higgs wrote:
> 
> 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.

  This seems to ba modus operndi for Perry, ans some others of the
membership.  It is tiresum, and tends to cause me to believe that
stewartship of IAHC could suffer as a result.  

Regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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