Re: con men

[Kevin Brown <kevinbr@netcomm.ie>]

At 22:07 +0300 17/12/96, Thabet Birro wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Karl Denninger wrote:
>
>> >
>> > Karl Denninger wrote:
>> > > All the rabble-rousing kept the IANA from voting itself a US $1M annual
>> > > budget and ultimately, perhaps even an IPO (ala Network Solutions)
>>-- and
>> > > an improper monopoly over a public resource.
>> >
>> >    If so, Jon Postel must have been planning to screw up
>> > the plot, or he wouldn't have taken up the proposal to
>> > spread the monopoly out into a cloud of tiny monopolets.
>>
>> Claimed intent is irrelavent isn't it?  How many ways you spread out the
>> funds is irrelavent too, as long as you control them.  We've already seen
>> this with NSI; they were granted what amounted to monopoly control over a
>> resource with a blanket "right" to impose any fee structure they saw fit,
>> and they did.
>>
>> 50 million bucks (US) later (estimated, of course, as they don't publish
>> real numbers as a private company), we still haven't learned anything?
>[....]
>
>Not that Jon Postel needs a character witness or anything, but

Postel does not need a witness. We need an organisation that has
accountible polices.

>I assure those who have not dealt with him yet that money is
>not high on his priority list.  I had the pleasure of working
>with Jon over a period of several month establishing the national
>TLD for Syria (.sy).  Public service and bringing the benefit of the
>Internet to the rest of the world were certainly high on his
>priority list, however.
>
>IMO, having him be at the lead of this iTLD effort (of all the IANA staff),
>certainly adds a higher level of credibility.
>
>My 2 Syrian Pounds,
>Thabet Birro
Thabat,

was the delegation in Syria based upon community consensus? Where can I go
to review how the delegation occured? The point is not who is nice or not.
The point is accountability, which seems to be lacking. Credibilty comes
from public awareness and consensus, not individual testimony.

Kevin

ps I am sure that Jon is a nice guy. We are all nice.....


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