IAHC Backtracks on Registrar Lottery

Wed May 7 21:27:51 UTC 1997

Karl Denninger writes:
> 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 syste
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> > > 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.
> 
> So David Crocker did not tell the truth in the panel discussion yesterday at
> N+I (at which I and others spoke?)

I'll quote the news release for the benefit of those who did not read it:

          Details for this new arrangement have not yet been worked into a
  formal proposal.  The interim Policy Oversight Committee will put
  forward an alternative plan for this new arrangement shortly, after 
  consulting with the Policy Advisory Body, formed from existing
  signatories to the gTLD-MoU, and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
  and the Internet Society.

Perry
Speaking personally, and not in any official capacity