At 8:08 AM -0700 5/29/97, Richard J. Sexton wrote:
At IETF San Jose, my nuderstanding is they thought Eugene should move forward with .alt in recognition of the work he had done, and take it from there.
I don't know what "they" you are referring to, but there has been no IETF statement or direction concerning this matter. There certainly has been no direction to Eugene to do a .alt or any other activity. As noted, the term "pirate" is rather precisely correct since it refers to those who try to take over that which is not theirs. The DNS has been a well-running service on the Internet "seas" for many years. It has an established administrative authority and structure. That authority has requested change and the IAHC was the agent of that request. The work by the "other folks" is quite simply an attempt to replace the established authority and structure with another one. Given the importance of DNS operational stability, the recent demise of the latest pirate effort can only make one wonder at the idea of allowing them to be in the critical path of such a critical resource.
Along came IAHC and the shit hit the fan.
It hit the fan months earlier. The IAHC was created to try to turn some of it into fertilizer and grow a workable path. d/ ---------------------------- Dave Crocker, Director +1 408 246 8253 Internet Mail Consortium (f) +1 408 249 6205 675 Spruce Dr. dcrocker@imc.org Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA http://www.imc.org Also: iPOC member, expressing personal opinions http://www.gtld-mou.org