Seems like a way of saying 'I am going to contradict you without justifying my position in terms that allow me to criticize any request to do so'. > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Braden [mailto:braden@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:10 PM > To: Hallam-Baker, Phillip > Cc: Brian E Carpenter; ietf@xxxxxxxx; iesg@xxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: IANA registration constraints > > Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote in part: > > > > >On the 'misapropriation' issue, I think that it is important that > >people understand that nobody owns the Internet and nobody > can own it. > >Just because the IETF won the global data design competition in the > >1990s does not mean that it has perpetual ownership of it. > > > Seems like a peculiar version of the actual history of the > IETF and of the Internet design. But, let's NOT get into a > deep philosophical discuss of what "ownership" means. > > Bob Braden > > > > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf