[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-11 Thread Michael Sondow
Joop Teernstra a écrit: > Michael, since you are in this mood, can we expect some more apologies > especially to those people who broadly share your concerns, but who , > instead of finding solidarity, have found themselves the target of your > most offensive choice of words? I have no idea who

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-11 Thread Joop Teernstra
At 01:18 11/01/99 -0500, Michael Sondow wrote: . > Anyway, I apologize for >overreacting. Yes! Michael, since you are in this mood, can we expect some more apologies especially to those people who broadly share your concerns, but who , instead of finding solidarity, have found themselves the ta

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-11 Thread Michael Sondow
Greg Skinner a écrit: > > Michael Sondow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Well, I think you are exaggerating. It's part of this techno-mystique > >surrounding the Internet, which technical people who feel insecure > >about their social and linguistic skills are often pulling. In any > >case, ther

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-10 Thread Greg Skinner
Michael Sondow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well, I think you are exaggerating. It's part of this techno-mystique >surrounding the Internet, which technical people who feel insecure >about their social and linguistic skills are often pulling. In any >case, there was nothing technical in this dialo

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-10 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 02:51 PM 1/10/99 -0800, Dave Crocker wrote: >At 03:14 PM 1/9/99 -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: >I've used Internet video conferencing with a few thousand folks. Audio got >me even more, on the same bandwidth. If you run a send-only mutli-cast feed >for video and two-way Internet phone you c

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-10 Thread Dave Crocker
At 03:14 PM 1/9/99 -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: I've used Internet video conferencing with a few thousand folks. Audio got me even more, on the same bandwidth. If you run a send-only mutli-cast feed for video and two-way Internet phone you could handle quite a few folks. The big problem is

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-10 Thread Michael Sondow
Roeland M.J. Meyer a écrit: > > At 01:45 AM 1/10/99 -0500, Michael Sondow wrote: > >Dave Crocker a écrit: > >> > >> At 04:49 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Farber wrote: > >> > >> > I have stayed out of this for a while recovering from the trial. > >> > We are drug pushers. We tout our technology but don'

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-10 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 01:45 AM 1/10/99 -0500, Michael Sondow wrote: >Dave Crocker a écrit: >> >> At 04:49 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Farber wrote: >> >> > I have stayed out of this for a while recovering from the trial. >> > We are drug pushers. We tout our technology but don't ever use it. What >> > is wrong with live

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-10 Thread Michael Sondow
Gordon Cook a écrit: > > No Michael, they are not writing in code > They just know far far more about the Internet and its technologies that > you can ever hope to know. I say this despite SERIOUS policy disagreements > with the both of them. Don't you realize, Gordon, that your incessant

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-10 Thread Gordon Cook
No Michael, they are not writing in code They just know far far more about the Internet and its technologies that you can ever hope to know. I say this despite SERIOUS policy disagreements with the both of them. BTW from a technical point of view about the m-bone for sure the crock is correc

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-10 Thread Michael Sondow
Roeland M.J. Meyer a écrit: > > At 04:22 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Michael Sondow wrote: > >steve a écrit: > >> > >> Suggestion: > >> > >> Have the ORSC Rep (Jay) tape the meeting, and place the minutes on the > >> list. If that's not allowed by all in attendance then...make your own > >> judgement... >

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-10 Thread Michael Sondow
Dave Crocker a écrit: > > At 04:49 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Farber wrote: > > > I have stayed out of this for a while recovering from the trial. > > We are drug pushers. We tout our technology but don't ever use it. What > > is wrong with live mbone, real video, real audio -- pick your poison, so >

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 04:22 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Michael Sondow wrote: >steve a écrit: >> >> Suggestion: >> >> Have the ORSC Rep (Jay) tape the meeting, and place the minutes on the >> list. If that's not allowed by all in attendance then...make your own >> judgement... > >It doesn't solve the dilemma, Steve. And no

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread Dave Crocker
At 05:55 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Farber wrote: >At 05:21 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Crocker wrote: >>At 04:49 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Farber wrote: >>> >>>So why not??!! >> >> >>Because they don't work well enough in the current Internet. >> >>Let's be a little careful about demanding immediate, large-scal

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 05:21 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Crocker wrote: Please don't post HTML. *Some* of us still use /usr/bin/mail :-) (sometimes) > >At 04:49 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Farber wrote: >I have stayed out of this for a while >recovering from the trial. >We are drug pushers. We tout our technology but don't e

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 05:21 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Crocker wrote: At 04:49 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Farber wrote: I have stayed out of this for a while recovering from the trial. We are drug pushers. We tout our technology but don't ever use it. What is wrong with live mbone, real video, real audio -- pick your poison

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread Dave Farber
At 05:21 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Crocker wrote: At 04:49 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Farber wrote: I have stayed out of this for a while recovering from the trial. We are drug pushers. We tout our technology but don't ever use it. What is wrong with live mbone, real video, real audio -- pick your poison

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread jeff Williams
Dave and all, Only problem with Mr. Crockers statement below, is that these technologies mbone, real video, real audio and I would add Internet Video conferencing are use on the Internet by literally thousands every day Dave Crocker wrote: > At 04:49 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Farber wrote:

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread Dave Crocker
At 04:49 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Farber wrote: I have stayed out of this for a while recovering from the trial. We are drug pushers. We tout our technology but don't ever use it. What is wrong with live mbone, real video, real audio -- pick your poison, so all can at least attend the meetings if no

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread jeff Williams
Dave and all, Completely agreed Dave. We (INEGroup) and myself made this suggestion to the ICANN before the November 14th Boston Meeting as well as all the subsequent Brussels meeting as well. It didn't seem that the Berkman Center could get it act together to get it done even after I persona

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread Dave Farber
I have stayed out of this for a while recovering from the trial. We are drug pushers. We tout our technology but don't ever use it. What is wrong with live mbone, real video, real audio -- pick your poison, so all can at least attend the meetings if not the coffee breaks. If you tell me it is

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread Michael Sondow
steve a écrit: > > Suggestion: > > Have the ORSC Rep (Jay) tape the meeting, and place the minutes on the > list. If that's not allowed by all in attendance then...make your own > judgement... It doesn't solve the dilemma, Steve. And no one would agree to it. Who would want to listen to that t

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread steve
Suggestion: Have the ORSC Rep (Jay) tape the meeting, and place the minutes on the list. If that's not allowed by all in attendance then...make your own judgement... Steve T: 925-454-8624 >I'd be happy to comment on this. There is apparently a >meeting the day before among the organizers of th

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread Gordon Cook
sondow wrote: (not a ecrit in self affected french) > >ORSC was "invited". The users and their representatives haven't been, nor >have any people from CABASE or ALCI, or anywhere else in the developing >countries, because the INTA and their friends don't want opposition. It's >clear as day, isn't

[ifwp] RE: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread William X. Walsh
This sounds so ominous Michael :) To my knowledge this meeting was NOT arranged by ORSC, and Stef merely inquired (publicly on the list I might mention) that Jay represent ORSC at this meeting if possible. As to the specifics of the meeting, and who set it up, those details have not been publi

[ifwp] RE: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread Christopher Ambler
>Yeah, me too. I've always considered myself to be a fairly well polished >hypocrite. I'm not as polished as I am clean-shaven. I wanted to grow a beard, but my wife made me scrape it all off today. Seriously, though - think about the position we're all in. When a group like ICANN has closed

[ifwp] RE: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread Alex Kamantauskas
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Christopher Ambler wrote: >> You're a bunch of lousy hypocrites. Nothing more and nothing less. > > On that remark, this discussion just ended, as far as I'm concerned. > Yeah, me too. I've always considered myself to be a fairly well polished hypocrite. -- Alex Kamant

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread Michael Sondow
Christopher Ambler a écrit: > > >That's the same logic used by everyone who participates in closed > processes. > >Did you ask whether the meeting was open to everyone who is interested? Did > >you refuse to participate in a closed meeting? Is it alright when ti's the > >ORSC that does it, but a

[ifwp] RE: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread William X. Walsh
Michael chooses to ignore this part of what I said : On 09-Jan-99 Michael Sondow wrote: >> Makes perfect sense for ORSC, and for any organization electing to be >> represented, to make sure they crash these closed meetings if at all >> possible, >> to force them to be open, despite any plans oth

[ifwp] RE: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread Christopher Ambler
>Oh, so it's just fine when the ORSC accepts invitations to closed, exclusive >meetings, in order to "force them to be open"? There's only one way to force >them to be open: demand that everyone who wants to attend can go, and refuse >to participate if they aren't. As I said, it's very difficult

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread Christopher Ambler
>That's the same logic used by everyone who participates in closed processes. >Did you ask whether the meeting was open to everyone who is interested? Did >you refuse to participate in a closed meeting? Is it alright when ti's the >ORSC that does it, but a terrible crime when it's someone else?

[ifwp] RE: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread Michael Sondow
William X. Walsh a écrit: > > This sounds so ominous Michael :) > > To my knowledge this meeting was NOT arranged by ORSC, and Stef merely inquired > (publicly on the list I might mention) that Jay represent ORSC at this meeting > if possible. > > As to the specifics of the meeting, and who set

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread Michael Sondow
Christopher Ambler a écrit: > > I'd be happy to comment on this. There is apparently a > meeting the day before among the organizers of the > meeting on the 22nd. I have no idea what's to be > discussed, and that's why I'm rather glad that an ORSC > rep will be there. I was asked, but I cannot at

[ifwp] Re: open Washington meeting? (2)

1999-01-09 Thread Christopher Ambler
I'd be happy to comment on this. There is apparently a meeting the day before among the organizers of the meeting on the 22nd. I have no idea what's to be discussed, and that's why I'm rather glad that an ORSC rep will be there. I was asked, but I cannot attend, as my plane leaves Thursday afterno