To those who brought so many people from all over the world to the meeting
in Berlin. Many many thanks and compliments. You are breaking new grounds to
permit global open meetings.
Tamar
At 03:31 AM 5/27/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Deutsche Telekom provided Net connectivity, and Germanynet augmented our
>own 25-stream realvideo server with their own. The rest of the
>scribing/webcast/comments system has been floated by the Berkman Center,
>with a commitment by ICANN to reimburse our hard costs once it's not penniless.
>
>It was great to see the work pay off with a critical mass of active online
>participants, which will encourage in-room participants to come to expect
>that online comments can be introduced into the flow of the meeting as it
>happens. At one point it seemed as if you and Karl were refreshing the
>comments screen enough to see each others' comments--allowing you to lodge
>new ones responsive to each, in turn displayed to the meeting. Really
>cool. ...JZ
>
>P.S. The thanks from everyone are really appreciated--about half a dozen
>Berkman folk worked astonishingly hard on this (including John Wilbanks,
>who reported for work in Cambridge at 2 a.m.), and it's important to know
>it can make a difference.
>
>At 10:42 PM 5/26/99 , Kent Crispin wrote:
>>
>>Thanks for all your work. Something that I am curious about -- my
>>impression is that ICANN is penniless, so who should we thank for
>>footing the bill for all this?
>>
>>--
>>Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] lonesome." -- Mark Twain
>
>
>Jon Zittrain
>Harvard Law School
>Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu
>Lecturer on Law
>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is98
>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/msdoj
>+ 1 617 495 4643
>+ 1 617 495 7641 (fax)
>
>
>
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