Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

Hum…  The then director has no recollection of that and a request to ICANN to produce such a letter was denied.  All we have is an assertion that a request was made.
Neither Herb, nor Bob have any idea what happened.  In the interests of openness & transparency, one might expect less demure behaviors.  I would go into more detail,
but it is not WG related.  

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back in Dec 2014, this exchange occurred:
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> I have been doing some research and can find no one here at ISI who remembers this communication and there is no written record of this exchange.   Would it be possible to get a copy from you?
> It does not appear to be available from the normal ICANN archives.

Thanks for your enquiry.

It is standard IANA practice that the details of the communications we have with directly involved parties are held in confidence. For requests relating to substantial changes of control for ccTLDs (e.g. delegations, transfers and retirement) a report is published after the conclusion of such requests that is a distillation of the relevant facts, but the underlying communications with the parties are not.

With kindest regards,

Kim Davies
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
ICANN
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On 8July2015Wednesday, at 17:36, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:

> No.
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> At the time, the Administrative Contact as listed in the IANA Whois database was USC-ISI. They (IIRC, the Director of ISI) requested the TLD to be removed from the root zone.
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> Regards,
> -drc
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>> On Jul 8, 2015, at 12:57 AM, Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net> wrote:
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>>> On Jul 7, 2015, at 6:43 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse <el@lisse.NA> wrote:
>>> My recollection is somewhat different from the AC "requesting" the
>>> revocation.
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>> I meant the Department of the Interior.  If I’m remembering correctly.
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>>                               -Bill
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