IAHC Backtracks on Registrar Lottery

Stephen Sprunk spsprunk at paranet.com
Wed May 7 15:57:14 UTC 1997


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. 






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