Re: Changing the Rules...

["Philip J. Nesser II" <pjnesser () martigny ai mit edu>]

Marc Hurst supposedly said:
> On Thu, 22 May 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> > Duane Little writes:
> > > Gee, this sort of thing looks a lot like the routine abuse of position
> > > and authority which is the usual result of a monopoly.
> > >
> > > The monopoly in this case?  --- IANA.
> >
> > The government of Hati sent Jon Postel a request that the .HT domain
> > be reassigned. The wishes of the government were followed. Is it your
> > contention that the wishes of the Hatian government should NOT have
> > been followed? Can you give us a basis in international law that makes
> > you think Jon is in a position to deny the request of a sovereign
> > state? Do you think the U.S. State Department would be pleased with
> > Jon if he were to decide arbitrarily to assign any ISO-3166 TLD
> > against the wishes of the government of that country?
>
> SKYSCAPE had offered IANA/Jon Postel to fund the ".ca" domain at no 
> cost and no prejudice based on the premise and understanding that the 
> Canadian government had stopped funding the project. SKYSCAPE was willing 
> to fund the existing infrastructure as is (our cost).


So?  As soon as the Canadian Government directs the IANA to delegate  ".ca"
to Skyscape I am sure the IANA will change the delegation.  Your statement
has no relevance to this discussion.  

---> Phil
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