At 04:29 PM 6/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
>RFC 1591 is not a legal document.
There's no legal document that says [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets to you, either.
>Even if it were, what criteria are you using to establish 'first' use of
>a TLD? The first registration? When the servers went online? When the
>company first incorporated? When the person got the idea in their head
>that they wanted to run a TLD?
A valid SOA is a good start. Some data in the zones convinces me.
Look at the eDNS docs. All this stuff has be argued to death long ago
and while I'm happy to be talking about this as opposed to the organizational
nightmare that ICANN hs become, we're covering old ground. eDNS figured
a lot of this stuff out already.
>I have no problem with the idea of people choosing their own nameservice
>providers, but realistically, at this point, which ones will they choose?
>Furthermore, why do you need ICANN to rise up to the challenge of allowing
>this to happen? In his public statements, Mike Roberts admitted that
>people could already do this and that ICANN had no authority in this area.
Understood.
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The old man was asked, why were these men and boys willing to stand up to the
mightiest army in the world? Was it the taxes on tea and other imports? No, he
said. Was it the thinking from all the great books coming from Europe? No, books
were rare and precious things which most couldn't afford. Then, he was asked again,
WHY? His answer was... "Because they were of a mind to govern us and we were of a
mind to govern ourselves."
