Re: con men

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Kevin,

  Please refrain from making leading statments to a persons
creditability
on this list.  It is very colse to being liabelous!  And I am sure that
Jon
does not appritiate it nor do I.  Any others care to comment?

Regards,


Kevin Brown wrote:
> 
> 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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