Re: The King is Dead! No More Kings Thanks Very Much...

[Jim Dixon <jdd@matthew.uk1.vbc.net>]

On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, andi payn wrote:

> First of all, I'd like to point out that one of the criticisms constantly
> levelled against the IAHC proposal is that it directly went against the
> original plans of Jon Postel. He (through IANA) commissioned the ad-hoc
> committee to write a study on the best way to implement his original draft,
> presumably making whatever changes were necessary. Instead, they created an
> entirely new draft that was almost the opposite of what he had initially
> proposed (in some ways better, in other ways worse), and took it upon
> themselves to begin implementing their own proposal.
>  
> As I understand it, there is some question about how Mr. Postel feels about
> the current situation, and he's basically chosen to wait and see how it
> ...
> IAHC in itself isn't the problem, it's a flawed solution. You can liken
> their solution to that of nations that tried to deal with the problems of
> emerging capitalism by strengthening the monarchy and nobility (much as you
> imply), or to that of Stalinist Russia (as others do), but more important
> than deciding what kind of names to call the iPOC members is deciding how to
> fix--or replace--their solution.

Though I might quibble with a few minor points, I think that this is
an excellent summary of the DNS situation right now.  I would be a 
little stronger about the iPOC.  Any name-calling in that direction is
completely out of order.  Their solution is flawed and needs to be 
fixed, but I think that anyone's solution would have been flawed and 
in need of fixing.

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