Always a pleasure to receive a post from you, Sir Jeff, and I thank you for the
unmerited comparison with the eminent Mr Crocker, whose tersity I have unfortunately
yet to emulate.
In fact I was trying to get Mr Dixon to put some more of his cogent prose online,
while also trying to point out that 'Europe', for better or worse, is run by lawyers
not engineers and some sort of compromise might be more advisable than his suggested
solution where they all die out like the dinosaurs. Scenarios of that nature, even if
true, create certain resistance. Rhetoric included a trope called metaphor, I recall,
not necessarily invalidating its logical component.
On topic, I recollect that Chuck Gomes has very comprehensive figures on a country
basis for registrations up to 1998. Were he or NSI to make these available to the
list, it would illuminate the argument. I remember the levels of NSI sales as being
surprisingly small, in fact the discussion centred on how to increase them. Vend
rates of 5-15% against the relevant ccTLD were the norm. I have no idea whether they
were correct or not, presumably someone else could find them if NSI can't
One can only hope that the beleaguered marketing effort NSI belatedly put into action
had been assisted by the consciousness-raising ICANN and the US political classes
have engaged in on their behalf. One muses whether NSI can use their peculiar
political antennae to recruit the European equivalents to their cause in the same
way. What else have the poor bureaucrats of the variegated DG's to do? I appreciate
Roberto Gaetano's efforts elsewhere to recruit the atomic energy regulators,
presumably the power boys behind the secret .bomb, but I digress needlessly into the
Alice-in-Wonderland nature of this discussion....
Jeff Williams wrote:
> Mark and all,
>
> Youth, Truth and bravery vs age, corruption and treachery!???
> ROFLMAO! That is really good rhetoric there Mark! Nice bit
> of slurring, if I do say so myself. You are right up there with
> "Dcrock"!
>
> Mark Measday wrote:
>
> > Jim,
> >
> > Odd, given your arguments, that, with the good advice Mr B received at the EC,
> > we do not see him at the helm of some more adventurous venture.
> >
> > Why would a man so much more in possession of the facts than most choose merely
> > to learn Spanish at such a high salary when he could have burst from his
> > straitjacket and reaped the rewards of entrepreneurial endeavour according to
> > your account below?
> >
> > Was it that he did not believe his own rhetoric and polemic? Surely not.
> >
> > Someone not entirely convinced of the merit of your visionary position might
> > erroneously hazard a guess that age, corruption and treachery will always beat
> > youth, truth and bravery.....
> >
> > Jim Dixon wrote:
> >
> > > (*) I know of nothing in American history to parallel the recent sacking
> > > -- OK, OK, mass resignation under pressure -- of the European
> > > Commissioners. And few were surprised or shocked, though many were
> > > angry, when the head of DG XIII, the telecommunications directorate,
> > > then accepted a position paying about $1 million a year with Telefonica,
> > > the Spanish telco, while he was still responsible for regulating it.
> >
> > The Internet's amazing and continuing growth has
> > shattered the complacency of telcos and governments alike. What is a
> > commonplace is that by 2001 most telecoms traffic everywhere will be
> > data, not voice. By 2005 voice will be a tiny fraction of the bandwidth
> > in use, and all of the equipment, practices, laws, and regulations
> > developed over the last century of voice telecommunications will be
> > obsolete and irrelevant. No matter how hard the bureaucrats try to
> > stuff this huge and growing elephant into the straitjacket that they
> > developed for the mouse that they are used to, it just ain't gonna fit.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jim Dixon Managing Director
> > > VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Member of Council Telecommunications Director
> > > Internet Services Providers Association EuroISPA EEIG
> > > http://www.ispa.org.uk http://www.euroispa.org
> > > tel +44 171 976 0679 tel +32 2 503 22 65
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Jeffrey A. Williams
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