On 9/24/21 9:16 AM, John Hawkinson wrote:
So again, why would we not do this? What interest does it serve to do otherwise?
Unfortunately I haven't had time to answer each individual message. The brief answer to your question is that it is relatively urgent for us to address the equity issue. So far this issue has been mostly limited to this mailing list, but it's almost sure to come out in the popular press, as the recent flurry of messages has caused outsiders to pay attention to the issue. (I know this because they're contacting me privately.) I don't want the resulting headlines to cast aspersions on IANA, on the contributors to this discussion, or on the immediate consumers of the database. We need to show that we're addressing the equity problem. This means shouldn't continue to come out with new releases without doing anything about a real equity issue that we've known about for several months.