The PR was actually released by the Internet Society. Randy On Wed, 7 May 1997, Philip J. Nesser II wrote:
Stephen,
The announcement came from the iPOC which is really the old IAHC members (minus the ex-officaio ones) until the real POC is formed. This has lead to some confusion and attribution of things to the IAHC which as you correctly point out, has been disolved.
---> Phil
Stephen Sprunk supposedly said:
I fail to see how it is possible that the IAHC announced anything this week; the IAHC was dissolved on 1 May 97 when the gTLD-MoU was signed.
There is absolutely nothing to the effect of your statement on the IAHC web page (http://www.iahc.org/), and there is no new IETF draft from the (dissolved) IAHC in the InterNIC archives.
Where did this information come from?
Stephen
At 10:47 07 05 97 -0400, Cameo Wood wrote:
Acting only five days after its highly publicized adoption of a new system of registering new domain names, the International Ad Hoc Committee announced Tuesday that it will remove its limit on registrars. Under a memorandum of understanding signed last week, the IAHC limited the number of name registrars to 28 worldwide, to be selected by lottery. Citing "consistent and universal criticism," the IAHC announced that any service meeting financial and technical qualifications will be eligible to become a registrar. No lottery will be held.