Public trust & IANA?

["Sean Jackson" <Sean@Jackson.TC>]

Domain naming is subject to the public trust, says RFC1591.

Given the all inclusive language in '1591 this must apply to the 
operation of the dot (root) domain as well as the gTLDS and ccTLDs.

If IANA has made secret rule changes without going through the same 
process of rule-making consensus as 1591 did, then whoever makes these
secret rule changes is working in breach of the public trust.

Therefore introducing a rule which was dreamed up 'since RFC1591 was 
published' cannot be valid, and therefore Postel/IANA would be 
in breach of the public trust if they do anything except follow 
published RFC1591, and not any secretly amended versions

                      God Bless You,
                         Sean

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