[IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-24 Thread Gordon Cook
Esther, you operate entirely in secret and only go public when the reslts of the operation is known ICANN has done one thing and said another that there is no reason that anyone who has observed this closely should trust your word. At 5:18 PM 5/21/99 -0400, Esther Dyson wrote: >For the r

Re: [IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-22 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Lovell writes: > At 02:01 PM 5/22/99 +0100, you wrote: > >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Lovell writes: > > > >> >But then that does confirm my opinion of the second oldest profession > >> >in the world. > > > >> Hey, Dr. Lisse: > >> > >> Stuff it. > >>

Re: [IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-22 Thread Bill Lovell
At 02:01 PM 5/22/99 +0100, you wrote: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Lovell writes: > >> >But then that does confirm my opinion of the second oldest profession >> >in the world. > >> Hey, Dr. Lisse: >> >> Stuff it. >> >> Dr. Lovell > >Hey, Dr Lovell. > >But the only difference is that la

Re: [IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-22 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Lovell writes: > >But then that does confirm my opinion of the second oldest profession > >in the world. > Hey, Dr. Lisse: > > Stuff it. > > Dr. Lovell Hey, Dr Lovell. But the only difference is that lawyers get more money for the same work. el

Re: [IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-22 Thread Bill Lovell
At 09:44 AM 5/22/99 +0100, you wrote: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@esther>, Esther >Dyson writes: > >> For the record, Joe was talking about two different things. But why >> does all this matter so much anyway? who phoned whom, etc. etc. > >It doesn't matter at all, you are quite right. What DO

Re: [IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-22 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Greg, In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Skinner writes: > Frank Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The real real question is: > > > "Why can't we vote for our representatives? Why do you have the power to > > make decisions for the whole Internet?" > > Just as an observation, if ISOC fo

Re: [IFWP] Re: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-22 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Greg, In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Skinner writes: > If this is the case, this is bad for the IFWP process (and email in > particular as a step towards participatory online Internet > governance), if it actually could have had more of an impact on > ICANN. The IFWP process was dead long

Re: [IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-22 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@esther>, Esther Dyson writes: > For the record, Joe was talking about two different things. But why > does all this matter so much anyway? who phoned whom, etc. etc. It doesn't matter at all, you are quite right. What DOES matter is that he seems to have stated unde

Re: [IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-21 Thread Jeff Williams
Greg and all, SOmehow given the amount of information that has been put out on the disjointed involvement of the ISOC I would doubt very seriously that either Vinton Cref or more especially Don Heath would be voted in. Greg Skinner wrote: > Frank Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The rea

Re: [IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-21 Thread William X. Walsh
On Fri, 21 May 1999 21:35:14 -0700, Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 11:34 PM 5/21/99 -0400, Jay Fenello wrote: >>You've got to be kidding! > > >Look who's talking. > >Actually, Jay, the question is why you are working so hard to rehash this >very old and uninteresting topic now? > O

Re: [IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-21 Thread Dave Crocker
At 11:34 PM 5/21/99 -0400, Jay Fenello wrote: >You've got to be kidding! Look who's talking. Actually, Jay, the question is why you are working so hard to rehash this very old and uninteresting topic now? But that's ok. No need to answer. d/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: [IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-21 Thread Jay Fenello
At 05:18 PM 5/21/99 , Esther Dyson wrote: >For the record, Joe was talking about two different things. But why does all >this matter so much anyway? who phoned whom, etc. etc. > >The real question is: > >"Did whoever contacted you make you promise to do something in particular, >vote for particu

Re: [IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-21 Thread Greg Skinner
Frank Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The real real question is: > "Why can't we vote for our representatives? Why do you have the power to > make decisions for the whole Internet?" Just as an observation, if ISOC folks like Heath and Cerf ran for ICANN board positions, or endorsed other can

Re: [IFWP] Re: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-21 Thread Greg Skinner
"Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 02:03 AM 5/21/99 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote: >> On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 11:57:34PM -0800, Ellen Rony wrote: >>> After a summer of international meetings in 1998, people believed that the >>> selection of the interim NewCo board would be made by a

Re: [IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-21 Thread Frank Rizzo
At 2:18 PM -0700 5/21/99, Esther Dyson wrote: >For the record, Joe was talking about two different things. But why does all >this matter so much anyway? who phoned whom, etc. etc. > >The real question is: > >"Did whoever contacted you make you promise to do something in particular, >vote for part

Re: [IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-21 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 05:18 PM 5/21/99 -0400, Esther Dyson wrote: >For the record, Joe was talking about two different things. But why does all >this matter so much anyway? who phoned whom, etc. etc. > >The real question is: > >"Did whoever contacted you make you promise to do something in particular, >vote for pa

[IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-21 Thread Esther Dyson
For the record, Joe was talking about two different things. But why does all this matter so much anyway? who phoned whom, etc. etc. The real question is: "Did whoever contacted you make you promise to do something in particular, vote for particular interests, or follow directions of any kind?"

Re: [IFWP] Re: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-21 Thread Karl Auerbach
> > After a summer of international meetings in 1998, people believed that the > > selection of the interim NewCo board would be made by a PUBLIC process. > > Some truly naive people may have believed that. The political > realities were that the people would have to be hand-selected, however.

Re: [IFWP] Re: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-21 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 02:03 AM 5/21/99 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote: >On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 11:57:34PM -0800, Ellen Rony wrote: >> Kent Crispin wrote: >> >- the selection process was a distributed search -- nobody involved >> >knew all the players, or what everyone was doing >> >> I cut all the cc's. You can add 'e

Re: [IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-21 Thread Michael Sondow
Roberto Gaetano a écrit: > > Back to the serious side of your statement, if somebody among the many > recipients of this thread is convinced that Joe Sims committed perjury, > there's only one thing to do: take him to court. That has been very seriously considered. I discussed it at length with

[IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-21 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Roberto Gaetano wrote: > Eberhard, > > You wrote: > > > The way I read the notes Mr Simms said under oath (in front of a > > Congressional Committee) he didn't do it, whereas he later said he > > did it. > > > As I said before, the "it" in the first part of the sentence i

[IFWP] Re: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-21 Thread Kent Crispin
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 11:57:34PM -0800, Ellen Rony wrote: > Kent Crispin wrote: > >- the selection process was a distributed search -- nobody involved > >knew all the players, or what everyone was doing > > I cut all the cc's. You can add 'em back if you want. > > After a summer of internatio

[IFWP] RE: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-21 Thread Roberto Gaetano
Eberhard, You wrote: > The way I read the notes Mr Simms said under oath (in front of a > Congressional Committee) he didn't do it, whereas he later said he > did it. > As I said before, the "it" in the first part of the sentence is a different thing of the "it" in the second part. Joe did "one

[IFWP] Re: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-20 Thread Ellen Rony
Kent Crispin wrote: >- the selection process was a distributed search -- nobody involved >knew all the players, or what everyone was doing I cut all the cc's. You can add 'em back if you want. After a summer of international meetings in 1998, people believed that the selection of the interim Ne

[IFWP] Re: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-20 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
George, In message <004001bea311$4ac5c880$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "George Conrades" writes: > Michael and Jay, You got to give Kent his point on how it happened > with me. To me personally it doesn't matter whether The K*nt gets a point or not. He's quite silly anyway. The way I read the notes Mr

[IFWP] Re: Duplicity by Fenello and Sondow

1999-05-20 Thread Karl Auerbach
Kent, I do agree with you that the actual methods was possibly something that, if we knew what it was, we might agree was reasonable. The trouble is, the method remains a mystery. I personally find it hard to believe that there was no coherant process by which a list was assembled, names ranked