>Now, must someone ask him whether he is presently retained in any
>capacity by NSI?
el,
I said several months ago that I have begun
to do some consulting work for Network Solutions.
That should be well known. Let me reiterate.
I have known the staff there since 1991, and
began interacting regularly with them when I
was at Sprint. I think highly of the people
and the company, including SAIC and Bob Beyster.
It's a wonderful place to work, and for an
engineer-lawyer with 35 years in a variety of
technical, operational, and policy positions,
its business presents endless opportunities to
apply talents and experiences.
As noted, however, my expression of views and
support of NSI has nothing to do with any consulting
relationship. I'm not doing PR for NSI.
As it turns out, their solid, business-oriented
approach on these issues coincides with mine;
including views about the appropriateness or
inappropriateness of different competing
organizational and normative approaches for
the Internet as a self-organizing user network.
What I advocate, are my views, not theirs -
as I've been doing rather publicly in diverse
circumstances since 1969.
Over time, one discovers that the technologies
may change, but the proclivities of people
and the issues rather remain the same. The
one exception has to do with the Internet's
ability to effect distributed self-organizing
arrangements rather than centralized mandated
coordination. And that makes for a particularly
rich set of contemporary developments and issues.
--tony
