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(_at_)ISI(_dot_)EDU] 
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:10 PM
To: Hallam-Baker, Phillip
Cc: Brian E Carpenter; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org; iesg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
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
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