IAHC Backtracks on Registrar Lottery

Wed May 7 21:15:31 UTC 1997

On Wed, May 07, 1997 at 02:26:33PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Cameo Wood writes:
> > 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.
> 
> There is no IAHC any more. The IAHC finished its work and disbanded.
> 
> The rest of your posting is also a mischaracterization. The POC and
> PAB folks announced that we're exploring removing the limits -- no
> formal proposal has yet been made.
> 
> Perry
> speaking personally, and not in any official capacity

So David Crocker did not tell the truth in the panel discussion yesterday at
N+I (at which I and others spoke?)

Either it has been removed or it has not.  If it has, then it has.  If it
has not, then saying that it has in a public forum with video cameras
rolling is misleading AT BEST.

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