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From: rayan@utegc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: .bc.ca domain park
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Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 09:49:17 EDT
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In article <1490@geac.UUCP> daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown) writes:
# In article <8709260429.AA22350@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> rayan@utegc.UUCP writes:
#   Sorry, ryan, but the people prejudging in this case are the members
# of Usenix who rejected public discussions.
#   The machines on the net are privatly owned: Usenix does not
# represent or claim to represent their views.  (flame on) If someone
# from Usenix has changed this, my managment will probably want to know,
# (flame off, smiley on) so they can start paying Usenix and not DEC
# (smiley off).

Sorry, dve, but who said anything about Usenix members deciding on
anything? A small group of interested attendees at the Usenix Conference
made the proposal, I presented it to the other network reps, and they
rejected it. Make sure you attribute the right (non-)action to the
right people. Any similarity between Usenix Conference attendees and
Usenix organization members or representatives, is purely coincidental.

#    In any case, someone has made a decision after being misinformed.

Not misinformed, misjudged perhaps. Though I'm beginning to think they
were right.

# Do try to inform the (inter)net,
# however, since it is the customer for any possible domain substructure.
# And I'm sorry about speaking harshly to you...

Gee Whiz, flame wars! I don't want to take part in any. The reason I
haven't published specifics yet, is that specifics are not yet in a
publishable form. Hopefully this will be the case before the end of
the week, but I am not jumping the gun. If you don't like what you will see
in some major aspect, you can start howling then. I doubt it will have
much effect, because the major features of the eventual result will be
a compromise position between the extremist desires of the different nets,
and that will be hard to move in any direction. Howling about details
will probably be heard (everyone learns with experience), but are details
that important?

The people at GEAC had a chance to comment and affect matters directly, when
I asked your sysadmin (and a whole bunch of others) about these things some
time ago. Yours did reply.

rayan