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From: REHRED <rehred@acn2.net>
Subject: [NIC-961127.4583] HT , REHRED second-step reaction
Cc: isoc@isoc.org, lhl@cs.wisc.edu, heath@isoc.org, burack@isoc.org, Daniel Pimienta
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FROM: REHRED
TO: IANA

>Bernard,
>
>We recently received a FAX from the Haitian government, asking us to
>redelegate the HT domain to another company for the time being.  The
>Internic has been informed, and we suggest you stop all activity
>concerning the HT domain.  FOCUS DATA has now been given the rights to
>the HT domain.  Please comply with this decision.  The Internic will
>redelegate the domain to this company ASAP.  Thank you for your
>cooperation.
>
>Josh and --jon
>
>Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

and

>Bernard,
>
>The bottom line is that it was not our decision to make.  The Haitian
>government told us to transfer the domain.  We are not going to argue
>with the wishes of the Haitian government.  If you wish to contact the
>Haitian government, please do.  This decision was made by the Ministry
>of Foreign Affairs.
>
>Josh



We received your mails with a total astonishment and we request urgently more
information.

1. Astonishment:

- Howcome IANA may not follow its own rules written and described in RFC 1591 
which clearly states that the procedure in case of disagreement about a TLD is the following:

> 4) Significantly interested parties in the domain should agree that
>     the designated manager is the appropriate party.
>
>     The IANA tries to have any contending parties reach agreement
>     among themselves, and generally takes no action to change things
>     unless all the contending parties agree; only in cases where the
>     designated manager has substantially mis-behaved would the IANA
>     step in.


2) Information

- We request a copy of the government communication you are using to justify such a surprising decision. 
At least we need the name of the government administration and person which authored the fax. AND THIS, 
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. (fax: (509) 45-3673 or (509) 45-7699)

In consequence, we ask the IANA to strictly respects the rules which are defined by itself about attribution 
of TLDs and especially, we ask IANA to stop the process of redelegating the TLD HT to FOCUS DATA.

On our side, we'l take contact with the concerned parties to obtain more informations about the situation 
and to search a local and national agreement, in the right line of the statments concerning TLD delegation 
and administration.

FYI: Your decision come after we have call for a meeting of all the involved parties 
(including MCI branch here and government OFFICIAL representative) to organize the steps 
towards a national consortium and you must HOLD it, at least til this meeting be concluded.

Bernard Zaugg
REHRED Coordinator