Doesn't mean the appeal has any more merit than the original case did.
On 19-Mar-99 jeff Williams wrote:
> Gordon and all,
>
> As you know, pgMedia has filed an appeal.. So there is still an
> agrieved party.
>
> Gordon Cook wrote:
>
> > Someone asked: Why was NSI granted a two year extension to the
> > Cooperative Agreement without an open re-bid? The end of the Cooperative
> > Agreement wasn't something that just snuck up and bit NTIA in the bottom
> > and said "surprise!".
> >
> > Cook: NTIA wanted to rebid.
> >
> > NSF saw no need to rebid...... It *WAS* NSF's agreement. therefore nothing
> > NTIA could do about it. By the time NTIA pryed it away from NSF, it was
> > abit late.
> >
> > NTIA has not a shred of legally defensible authority to be doing what it is
> > doing. I have triple sourced this. But to challenge NTIA now you need a
> > legally agrieved party. With the PGMedia case now history we don't
> > presently have a legally aggrieved party. Damned shame. because NTIA will
> > soon give ICANN the root and with the DNSO people calling all over
> > themselves to get ICANN to comply to their way of thinking they are
> > de-facto accepting ICANN legal authority and ensnaring themselves in
> > ICANN's clutches.
> >
> > we need an IODesign lawsuit. It cannot possibly happen too fast.
> >
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Date: 19-Mar-99
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