Re: [IFWP] ICANN is intended for...

1999-11-25 Thread Jeff Williams
Javier and all, Javier, I don't believe that $25,000 is needed for the translation of any and all ICANN documents as well as E-Mail exchanges into 10 or more different languages. I believe that about $5000 would be sufficient. We [INEGroup] do it for that now. So I see some PORK in this budg

Re: [IFWP] ICANN is intended for...

1999-11-25 Thread Javier Rodriguez
Jeff and all: On November 18 we have send a proposal to help on the translation to spanish ALL the documents, web sites, and web forms related to the AT LARGE election. You can see the whole proposal (in english :-) ) in : http://www.axisnet.perured.net/1999111802.html I ask myself how many or

Re: [IFWP] ICANN is intended for...

1999-11-25 Thread Jeff Williams
Javier, Dennis and all, Dennis is not on the IFWP list, which is why you might not have gotten his reply right away and I cc'ed him on it. Yes, "Officially", or according the the UN, Spanish is the second most spoken language in terms of population in the world. But I agree I believe that C

Re: [IFWP] ICANN is intended for...

1999-11-24 Thread Jeff Williams
Dennis, Javier and all, d3nnis wrote: > Javier and Jeff -- > > I think this is perhaps the most interesting dialog I have observed > since coming to the Cyberspace regime called ICANN. I don't believe I would want to characterize ICANN and most especially it's (Initial?) Interim board and now

Re: [IFWP] ICANN is intended for...

1999-11-24 Thread Jeff Williams
Javier and all, You know Javier, there was once a child much like you liken ICANN to be some 50 odd years ago. That child had defects, although they mostly mental ones, much like ICANN's. His name was Adolf Hitler... So, what I am getting at here is that sometimes the cure, kills the patie

[IFWP] ICANN is intended for...

1999-11-24 Thread Javier Rodriguez
Dear Tony, you wrote: >... a "good ICANN" is one that does nothing >or disappears. About the only exception, is the >introduction of new TLDs. I have a great respect for your positions about many themes related to the Internet and ICANN. But I have to disagree with you about that the best ICA