Re: Fast Food Analogy

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 12:02 PM -0800 1/1/97, Christopher Ambler wrote:

> >Of course, if IANA had told them that they could as anything other than
> >an experiment, then they would be.  I think you would agree that IANA
> >told them they could run new registries AS EXPERIMENTS.
>
> Some, perhaps. Some, definately not. With the possible exception of
> Bill Manning, who appears to be protecting himself, 100% of the
> people there agree that it was not as an experiment. Those who
> are insisting otherwise are plainly in error, as they were not there.
>

Since I was there, in the IANA conference room, I am one of the
half-a-dozen people who can accurately comment on this. :)

Creation of many of the new registries followed the time-honoured IETF
tradition of becoming operational on an experimental basis until such
time as, in this case, the IANA applications were processed and the
delegations for these registries are placed in the root. The intent was
to create operational registries that would be online and ready for
IANA delegations on October 1st 1996 (which was the schedule back then).

As Michael Dillon has posted, most of the operational arrangements,
liability terms (most of which came from Bill Manning) and the status
of the postel-draft were discussed and were continuations of existing
discussions on the newdom mailing list. This was all part of an ongoing
process by IANA to introduce competition to the existing registries.


Regards,

Simon

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