RE: Expansion of the IAHC

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 4:40 PM -0500 12/4/96, Donald Heath wrote:

Thank you for the clarification. I'm glad as many organizations as
possible are involved.

Just don't spend too long waiting for the Burger King Kids Club to respond!

;-)

> Hmmmmm, read Perry's note again.  The primary message is in the second
> paragraph.  Pretty sound advice, I'd say.
>
> I assure you and anyone else who is interested  -  the IAHC is intent on
> delivering the best resolution we can.  I intend to go beyond the limits of
> this list to do that  -  and I mean organizations like EC (DG XIII),
>NTIA, CIX,
> Domain Rights Coalition, ASEAN, and as many others as possible, to
> assure as much valid input and exposure to preliminary conclusions, for the
> purposes of getting as broad a consensus as possible for the final
>conclusions.
>
> Don
>
> ----------
> From: 	Simon Higgs[SMTP:simon@higgs.com]
> Sent: 	Wednesday, December 04, 1996 3:52 PM
> To: 	Donald Heath
> Cc: 	iahc-discuss@iahc.org
> Subject: 	RE: Expansion of the IAHC
>
> Don,
>
> [NOTE: This has nothing to do with governments, or the composition of
> the IAHC, or any such matter. It has everything to do with the IAHC's
> willingness to address this situation in whatever way necessary to
> provide real solutions to the issues we are discussing.]
>
> Just for the record, Perry has told me in private email, and in no
> uncertain terms, that his mind is already made up based on his
> "historical perspective of the net", and that he has already decided
> how he is going to vote. Perry's message below also indicates that this
> whole situation is very inflexible (an Ad Hoc Committee, huh?) and that
> it cannot/will not flex to meet the real issues on behalf of the
> internet community. This leads me to understand there will be little
> deliberation. If you are agreeing with Perry, then can we all assume
> that you too have already decided the fate of these issues?
>
> I'd very much like to be proven wrong on this.
> > I would like to second Perry's thought.
> >
> > don
> >
> > On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > Anyway, I'm sure you'll have plenty more to say on this, but just as a
> > warning, I'm not replying to the thread any more. So far as I know,
> > the IAHC isn't changing composition in the near future, and talk about
> > that, or whether the IAHC should exist, or whether I have three heads,
> > or anything else like that, isn't productive. The current IAHC is in
> > place and is not going to dissolve itself or add enough members to
> > turn into the U.N. general assembly. Thats pretty much a set fact.
> > Given this, all discussion along those lines is pretty much pointless.
> >
> > The IAHC going to be deliberating and coming to a decision within a
> > short time. If you want input into the decision, this is the place for
> > discussing that. If you spend your time trying to make sure that the
> > decisions are ones you like and can live with, I suspect you will be
> > happier with the outcome than if you spend your time trying to
> > convince the IAHC to commit mass suicide at dawn at or similar
> > pointless noise.
> >
> > Perry
> > Speaking for myself, not for the IAHC in an official capacity, but I
> > suspect other IAHC members agree with me on this.
>
>
>
> Simon
>
> --
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Simon

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