What did CORE know? I believe that most of CORE realized it was going
nowhere early on, but many of the members were sent by very large
organizations who didn't really care how it turned out and a very small
number ran the show. There was also a tremendous amount of anti-American
attitiude evident at the meetings which led the group to make bad decisions
such as the attempt to hijack the root after the Washington meeting. That
demonstrated to anyone watching, the level of integrity the CORE had.
Bob Helfant
At 03:22 PM 12/3/98 -0800, Christopher Ambler wrote:
>>Your questions are not relevent. These is no need to select a date for
>what
>>you are suggest. Operational registries are already in the root. We are
>>talking about invalid and non-operational claims to TLDs with no basis for
>>ever believing they would receive operational sanction.
>
>Really? You never answered my question - what makes you think that
>they had no basis to believe that they would receive operational
>sanction?
>
>As I asked before, are you saying that CORE had no reason to believe
>that they would be active? That IANA never gave them any such impression?
>Do you really think that some of these companies spent millions of
>dollars on infrastructure on a gamble? Do you think that they have
>no evidence of intent to be made active by IANA or anyone else?
>
>Nope. Think again.
>
>But do answer.
>
>Christopher
>