Re: [ifwp] Re: It's been a pleasure (was: The Lesson We Got)

[Jim Dixon <jdd@matthew.uk1.vbc.net>]

On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Patrick Greenwell wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Jim Dixon wrote:
> 
> > The IFWP process had an underlying premise: that the IANA and NSI were
> > completely at odds, and therefore we needed someone to arbitrate between 
> > them.  
> 
> *Ahem*, that is but a portion of it.

*Ahem*, yes indeed it is.  You clipped off half of what I wrote:

> > The IFWP process had an underlying premise: that the IANA and NSI were
> > completely at odds, and therefore we needed someone to arbitrate between 
> > them.  Alternatively you might say that their standoff created an 
> > opportunity for the Internet community to come up with its own solution.

and changed the meaning.

>                                     I have not been involved in this
> process for the purpose of faciliating discussion between IANA and
> NSI. I have been involved in the process to represent the viewpoint of the
> company I work for, and the ISP/C. I imagine many others feel the same,
> however they are quite capable of saying so.

If I had been keenly interested in arbitrating between NSI and IANA, 
I would have spoken to both.  In fact I spoke to neither.

Like you I participated in this process to represent the views and 
interests of ISPs, who I expect will be badly served by whatever deal
the IANA and NSI are stitching up between them.  But before we 
criticize that deal, we need to know more about it.
 
> > No one ever spoke about this, but it was always there.  We knew that
> > the suits from DC could never make a deal with the nerds in beards and 
> > sandals, the hard-headed corporate types had no common ground with the
> > idealists.  We were wrong.  
 
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