In message <d89eeb731eee3ff36bf5035231c0c810.1504583...@squirrel.mail>, "Walter H." writes: > On Mon, September 4, 2017 21:16, Tony Finch wrote: > > > >> On 4 Sep 2017, at 13:54, Walter H. <walte...@mathemainzel.info> wrote: > >> > >> not really, at those days only a few TLDs where possible, the many TLDs > >> came some years later ... > > > > It should have been clear after 1997-1998 from the discussions of the IAHC > > and the setup of ICANN that there would be a lot more TLDs. > > "would" is fiction ...
Yes, it was clear that there would be more TLD's then even if most of them would be run by speculators and would provide little benefit. This was a little before Jon's death in 1998. I remember having lunch with him and thinking about this issue over lunch. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
