Re: Iperdome Press Release!

["Richard J. Sexton" <richard@sexton.org>]

At 06:59 PM 7/9/97 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>Simon Higgs writes:
>> At 1:02 PM -0400 7/9/97, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> 
>> > Jay@Iperdome.com writes:
>> > > Iperdome Applauds U.S. Government Intervention in Domain Name Crisis
>> >
>> > They haven't "intervened". They are holding hearings -- which they
>> > said they were going to do for, oh, about half a year now.
>> 
>> 6 months ago... that's well after the time the IAHC started saying
>> "it's a done deal" (that was you Perry, right?)
>
>Actually, things like the NTIA hearings were discussed substantially
>*before* we finished our final report. However, none of this does
>change anything. It *is* a done deal. The hearings won't change
>that. Note that they aren't proposing to *do* anything -- they are
>holding hearings and writing a report.

And if the report says lock up postel, pery and the rest of the
iahc croneis for 25 years and unplug the root servers *tomoorrow*
nothing will change? Riiiiiiiiiiight.

You have no idea what they're going to say, or what any other
country might do or say or what might happen out of left field
from the net or Geneva.

All we can do is watch this whole thing unfold.


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