Kent and all,
Kent Crispin wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 02:49:04PM -0400, Planet Communications Computing Facility
>wrote:
> > Hello Kent:
> >
> > Some time ago you made the comment:
> >
> > "ANYONE can set up a private TLD, and that has no more significance
> > concerning the IANA root servers than the claims of the various militia
> > groups concerning US territory."
> >
> > Kent Crispin, Chairman, gTLD-MoU Policy Advisory Body, August 21st, 1998
> >
> > What was your intent in making this comment. I think I follow it, except
> > for the militia bits which seem out of place.
>
> It's real hard to know what the intent of that comment was, given
> that it is a year old, and pulled from some context I don't
> remember. The "militia bits" may have been a reference to some hot
> news story of the time, and I agree that it is a little hard to
> follow now.
>
> I think what I meant was that it is perfectly legal to set up your
> own TLDs and root servers, and to sell registrations in them.
>
> But doing so gives you no claim whatsoever to be put in someone
> else's root servers.
Whose Root servers are those that you refer to? Are they the LEGACY
Root servers? if so, don't those belong to ALL of the stakeholders?
I believe that they do... As such any other set of Root servers or
Root server structure has the right to have equal access to the
LEGACY Root servers I believe, irrespective to what that access
might entail, as long as such access is not disruptive in the sense that
that access would destabilize the LEGACY Root server structure....
>
>
> This is in contradiction to claims made by some that since they have
> what they call a functioning registry they can legally force their
> way into the IANA root.
Force is an incorrect term in this context...
>
>
> --
> Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
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