Re: [IFWP] Internet Governing Body Declares Only Concerned With Technical Parameters, Sanctions Edicts Of Governmental Legislative Internet Bureaucracy

1999-08-29 Thread Brian C. Hollingsworth
Mr. Marsh and Everyone, Your point and conclusion should be well taken here Mr. Marsh. Gene Marsh wrote: > At 12:50 PM 8/25/99 -0400, you wrote: > >>I ask again, without the NTIA, just what could the Internet community do > >>about NSI? Someone please say that nothing needs to be done about

Re: [IFWP] Internet Governing Body Declares Only Concerned With Technical Parameters, Sanctions Edicts Of Governmental Legislative Internet Bureaucracy

1999-08-28 Thread Jeff Williams
Gene and all, You are exactly right here Gene. It seems to be easy to forget this point. Though as you may not know, SAIC divested itself of majority interest in NSI just recently but still holds 45% of the stock. As a stockholder myself of NSI class A and now Class B stock as well, I am kee

Re: [IFWP] Internet Governing Body Declares Only Concerned With Technical Parameters, Sanctions Edicts Of Governmental Legislative Internet Bureaucracy

1999-08-28 Thread Gene Marsh
At 12:50 PM 8/25/99 -0400, you wrote: >>I ask again, without the NTIA, just what could the Internet community do >>about NSI? Someone please say that nothing needs to be done about NSI... > >Yes, sombody should give them a medal for putting up with all this >shit from the clueless unwashed masses

Re: [IFWP] Internet Governing Body Declares Only Concerned With Technical Parameters, Sanctions Edicts Of Governmental Legislative Internet Bureaucracy

1999-08-25 Thread Greg Skinner
Ronda Hauben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If there is a problem with government, people have to do something > about it, while some corporate entities seem to be preaching abolish > government and give them all power. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/14589.html > Interesting. But t

Re: [IFWP] Internet Governing Body Declares Only Concerned With Technical Parameters, Sanctions Edicts Of Governmental Legislative Internet Bureaucracy

1999-08-25 Thread Ronda Hauben
From: "Craig McTaggart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Sondow wrote: >> an age of authoritarian acquiescence and regression, NSI V-P Don Telage >Uh, how about an age of unprecedented privatization and dilution of public >authority in favour of unaccountable private force, the antithesis of

Re: [IFWP] Internet Governing Body Declares Only Concerned With Technical Parameters, Sanctions Edicts Of Governmental Legislative Internet Bureaucracy

1999-08-25 Thread Richard J. Sexton
>I ask again, without the NTIA, just what could the Internet community do >about NSI? Someone please say that nothing needs to be done about NSI... Yes, sombody should give them a medal for putting up with all this shit from the clueless unwashed masses. -- This program posts news to thousands

Re: [IFWP] Internet Governing Body Declares Only Concerned With Technical Parameters, Sanctions Edicts Of Governmental Legislative Internet Bureaucracy

1999-08-25 Thread A.M. Rutkowski
Hi Craig, I ask again, without the NTIA, just what could the Internet community do about NSI?  Someone please say that nothing needs to be done about NSI... What needs to be done about Cisco,...about MCI Worldcom about Microsoftabout concentration in the provisioning of search services...

Re: [IFWP] Internet Governing Body Declares Only Concerned With Technical Parameters, Sanctions Edicts Of Governmental Legislative Internet Bureaucracy

1999-08-25 Thread Craig McTaggart
Michael Sondow wrote: > an age of authoritarian acquiescence and regression, NSI V-P Don Telage Uh, how about an age of unprecedented privatization and dilution of public authority in favour of unaccountable private force, the antithesis of democracy... > [Intenet savior Don Telage] said "I bel

[IFWP] Internet Governing Body Declares Only Concerned With Technical Parameters, Sanctions Edicts Of Governmental Legislative Internet Bureaucracy

1999-08-25 Thread Michael Sondow
"Internet Governing Body Declares Only Concerned With Technical Parameters, Sanctions Edicts Of Governmental Legislative Internet Bureaucracy" August 25. Santago, Chile. ICANN, the new totalitarian Internet government, today de