Colleagues, NTIA has just issued an RFC on IANA's operation and governance. [No, not an IETF one!] Comments have to be in by the end of March. Response to this RFC will help NTIA to decide about what happens when its current IANA contract ends in September. Here's the URL: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/frnotices/2011/fr_ianafunctionsnoi_02252011.pdf It's not clear to me if this is something the WG collectively could or should respond to. That's up you all of you to decide. However some of you may want to submit your own responses to NTIA.
Quoting Jim Reid <jim@rfc1035.com>: An overall very interesting and informative document. How about this quote: "Paper submissions should include a three and one-half inch computer diskette in HTML, ASCII, Word or WordPerfect format (please specify version). Diskettes should be labeled with the name and organizational affiliation of the filer, and the name of the word processing program used to create the document. Alternatively, comments may be submitted electronically to IANAFunctions@ntia.doc.gov. Comments provided via electronic mail should also be submitted in one or more of the formats specified above." Three and one-half inch computer diskette? In 2011? Not to mention the acceptance of WordPerfect and lack for example of pdf. Is this a way to discourage comments? :-P Regards, Kostas
Colleagues, NTIA has just issued an RFC on IANA's operation and governance. [No, not an IETF one!] Comments have to be in by the end of March. Response to this RFC will help NTIA to decide about what happens when its current IANA contract ends in September. Here's the URL: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/frnotices/2011/fr_ianafunctionsnoi_02252011.pdf
It's not clear to me if this is something the WG collectively could or should respond to. That's up you all of you to decide. However some of you may want to submit your own responses to NTIA.
Three and one-half inch computer diskette? In 2011? Not to mention the acceptance of WordPerfect and lack for example of pdf. Is this a way to discourage comments? :-P
my guess is, if you're too lame to submit softcopy, the wanted a specific format that they could transform to softcopy. someone figured that, if you are too lame to upload softcopy, you probably use floppies and word perfect. randy
On 6 Mar 2011, at 10:52, kzorba@otenet.gr wrote:
Three and one-half inch computer diskette? In 2011?
Perhaps the thinking here is if you're too young to know about 3.5 inch floppies, you're too young to be able to make meaningful comments. ie this consultation is not for the Facebook or Twitter generation. :-) I have a pile of unformatted floppies. [They're next to a selection of half-inch mag tapes at the back of a cupboard. Kids, ask your parents...] If anyone here is minded to send something to NTIA on floppy disk, please let me know.
Not to mention the acceptance of WordPerfect and lack for example of pdf.
Hey, anyone who accepts plain text can't be all bad. :-)
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