IAHC Backtracks on Registrar Lottery

Thu May 8 04:58:27 UTC 1997

On Wed, 7 May 1997, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:

> On Wed, 7 May 1997, Cameo Wood wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 1) URL, por favor?
> 
> 2) So there will be an unlimited number of registrars?  I thought that
> everyone meeting the financial and technical qualifications was _already_
> eligible (if they applied), and that the lottery would determine which of
> them _became_ registrars.

Exactly as you stated.  An applicant still has to be qualified as per the
previous rules.  It is just that after you are qualified - there is no
lottery and you become part of the Council Of REgistrars.

> 
> Call me confused.
> 
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> Todd Graham Lewis          MindSpring Enterprises      tlewis at mindspring.com
> 

Hank Nussbacher
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