[IFWP] Re: [ga] Privacy and Whois databases

1999-10-15 Thread Jeff Williams
Joe and all, Yes I know to whom you are referring to here. Our WXW boy! And this sort of highlights his position on this issue. Sort of a self preservation thing, eh? I guess some folks just don't appriciate the many benefits of "Soap on a rope"! >;) Likely to be a commodity that our WXW b

[IFWP] Re: [ga] Privacy and Whois databases

1999-10-15 Thread Jeff Williams
William and all, However this is both inadequate and not in accordance with existing US law. THerefore it is both not legal and as such not a valid alternative. William X. Walsh wrote: > On 15-Oct-99 Mikki Barry wrote: > > The contact information should be available for bona fide > > reasons

[IFWP] Re: [ga] Privacy and Whois databases

1999-10-15 Thread Jeff Williams
Bill and all, I am in complete agreement with what you suggest. I made this suggestion about a year ago as well. J. William Semich wrote: > Hello; > > For an interesting article on privacy issues related to the ICANN > requirement that all Whois contact information be made public, see > > ht

[IFWP] Re: Comments on draft-ietf-ipngwg-addrconf-privacy-00.txt

1999-10-15 Thread Jeff Williams
Peter and all, Peter Tattam wrote: > Hi all. > > Just weighing in on this topic, I have the following to say, and apologies if > it overlaps or has been said before. > > I believe I raised the topic several months ago, but nobody seemed to take much > notice, but I'm glad that the issues have no

[IFWP] FCC firmly in the pocket of big business (fwd)

1999-10-15 Thread Greg Skinner
--- start of forwarded message --- From: John Navas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: ba.internet Subject: FCC firmly in the pocket of big business Followup-To: comp.dcom.modems.cable Organization: The Navas Group, Dublin, CA, USA Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 08:24:

Re: [IFWP] Schrader tells it like it is

1999-10-15 Thread A.M. Rutkowski
At 01:18 PM 10/15/99 , J. Baptista wrote: >If I remember correctly, Tony Rutkowski during his tenur with the ITU >advised them that if they failed to get involved, then the ITU would in >fact disappear. This happened some years ago. They didn't take his >advice then, and now I think it a bit lat

Re: [IFWP] Remote participation at ICANN LA meeting

1999-10-15 Thread J. Baptista
Excellent idea richard. It's not going to happen, but the idea is excellent. On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Richard J. Sexton wrote: > Can I introdude a radical concept here? The telephone ? > > Remote participation has been largely one way here. > The webcasting is quite good, we can tell whats > going

[IFWP] Remote participation at ICANN LA meeting

1999-10-15 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Can I introdude a radical concept here? The telephone ? Remote participation has been largely one way here. The webcasting is quite good, we can tell whats going on, but the remote comments are read then ignored as opposed to being discussed, and in some cases are just "summarized by the scribes"

Re: [IFWP] Schrader tells it like it is

1999-10-15 Thread J. Baptista
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, A.M. Rutkowski wrote: > In a hard-hitting interview with > Communications Week International, Yoshio Utsumi > has warned that a failure to adapt to the > modern communications environment could mean > that the ITU will disappear. If I remember correctly, Tony Rutkowski duri

[IFWP] Schrader tells it like it is

1999-10-15 Thread A.M. Rutkowski
This should be subtitled: Utsumi selects group who tells him what he wants to hear and attempts to suppress other views. (Bill fortunately found the press.) It's also disingenuous because only States can be ITU "members," and it is only the members that have any power in the ITU. --amr ===

[IFWP] Re: More misinformation on IPv6

1999-10-15 Thread Jeff Williams
Brian and all, Denial of the existing documented privacy problems with IPv6 is not going to buy you much and could bring on some discredit to the IETF and IPv6 in specific. The best thing to do is fix the problems in the spec. And having the IAB endorse anything along these lines is just window