Re: IAHC 'business' composition

["Marty Modell" <ir001264@mindspring.com>]

One only has to read a daily newspaper, watch TV, search the yellow
pages (the real ones)  or even listen to
the radio these days to understand the concern over "representation
from a business angle"

Today as I was reading Clarinet News briefs
there were several annoucements by companies (as there are most days)
 who just put up their
web pages.  Several other items were of companies who had installed
catalogs on the net, or ordering services on the net, etc.  The
Internet today is big business, very big business... It is not
just a source of business revenue for
those who provide the services (the ISPs and the software vendors)
but also for the thousands of companies who advertise, and sell and in some
cases conduct the bulk of their business online using the net,

Maybe those folks need representation as well.

> 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/
>
>
> (read the last line, please)
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> Also:  IAHC member, expressing personal opinions
>
>
>
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      A Professional's Guide to Systems Analysis
         Second Edition - McGraw Hill - 1996