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Karl,
You are, of course, mostly right. There has been input form *some* of
the "grey-beards" (my beard starting turning grey last year, does that
mean I qualify :-)?) and from many newbies, wanna-be's and
"outsiders". I've only been involved in the net for about 17 years
(and communications systems for about 25 years), so I don't pretend to
have the experience of some.
My message was more to make a point that there has been very little
interaction from a group that is chartered with interacting with its
constituency.
I personally don't feel disillusioned, as I have kept my eyes open and
see very clearly.
Gene...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Auerbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 4:09 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Patrick Leahy
> Subject: Re: [IFWP] Time to lay out the hand
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> > At 12:24 AM 5/24/99 -0400, Marsh, Miles (Gene) wrote:
> > >The Internet is, in large measure, the result of the
> forward thinking,
> > >creative people who have been commenting on the issues. Hear
their
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> > What an odd thing to say.
> >
> > In fact very, very few of the people participating in any
> of these public
> > discussions have had anything to do with the creation of
> the Internet, or
> > with any substantial aspect of its current operation or
development.
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> Certainly neither you or me. ;-)
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> (To the onlookers, David Crocker and I, first met back in the
> mid 1970's,
> we were both working on various aspects of the ARPAnet - I was doing
> secure net design -- probably the first VPN. I guess we're
> both 25+ year
> veterans of the net.)
>
> Dave Crocker deserves a great deal of credit for the electronic mail
> systems that we use today.
>
> I continue to have a hand in the net, having done three
> Internet related
> start-ups, and (via an acquisition) am now doing advanced design and
> implementation of products for the transmission of
> better-than-broadcast
> quality audio/video over the net at Cisco Systems.
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> So there are a few of us, purportedly experienced,
> grey-beards out here.
> ;-)
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> Whether that makes us, and particularly, me any more "forward
> thinking" or
> "creative" than newcomers is something that might be debated.
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> --karl--
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