IAHC 'business' composition

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@imc.org>]

At 12:18 PM -0800 11/19/96, Ivan Pope wrote:
>I am staggered and amazed that there is little/no representation from a
>business angle, although we are the people who are really invested in

	There has been a continuing expression of concern about IAHC
makeup.  It leads to some interesting exercises in the theory of group
composition, exploring what is "acceptable" but still small enough to be
workable.

	But we should at least start from a base of accurate information
and the concern over the claimed lack of business representation is, I
believe, rather far off the mark.

	Half of the committee comes from the Internet community and more
than half of the committee are strongly tied to business activity.  Two are
hands on for Internet operations and two are real, real close.  Speaking
for myself I will note that my income is exclusively from the commercial
sector, pertaining to products and service, and covers a wide range of
clients, including Internet service.  (I happen also to head a non-profit
ISP run as a Silicon Valley public service.)  So when someone expresses
concern that large and small business are not adequately represented, I'm
having some trouble figuring out what would suffice.

d/


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