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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/30/21 10:01 AM, Hank Nussbacher
via At-Large wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:c102df95-791a-1399-c4d1-26c7d959cfbd@post.isoc.org.il">3.
...
based on my experience with ICANN processes, a 4 month delay is a
mere second in ICANN time. I would start complaining only after 4
years.
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<p>An apt summary of the speed of ICANN procedures may be found in
the works of Charles Dickens, most particularly Chapter 10 of <i>Little
Dorrit</i>: "Containing the whole Science of Government" (See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cavebear.com/archive/cavebear/containing_the_whole_science_of_government.html">https://www.cavebear.com/archive/cavebear/containing_the_whole_science_of_government.html</a>
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<p>Here are the first two paragraphs:</p>
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<p>The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being
told) the most important Department under Government. No public
business of any kind could possibly be done at any time without
the
acquiescence of the Circumlocution Office. Its finger was in
the
largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart. It was
equally impossible to do the plainest right and to undo the
plainest wrong without the express authority of the
Circumlocution
Office. If another Gunpowder Plot had been discovered half an
hour
before the lighting of the match, nobody would have been
justified
in saving the parliament until there had been half a score of
boards, half a bushel of minutes, several sacks of official
memoranda, and a family-vault full of ungrammatical
correspondence,
on the part of the Circumlocution Office.</p>
<p>This glorious establishment had been early in the field, when
the
one sublime principle involving the difficult art of governing a
country, was first distinctly revealed to statesmen. It had
been
foremost to study that bright revelation and to carry its
shining
influence through the whole of the official proceedings.
Whatever
was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was
beforehand
with all the public departments in the art of perceiving--HOW
NOT
TO DO IT.</p>
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<p> --karl--</p>
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