Re: Judge Defers AlterNIC Action

[Dave Crocker / IMC <dcrocker@imc.org>]

Marc,

	For complex topic, especially those ladened with considerable and
emotional history, accurate representation of the facts is difficult.

At 11:28 AM 7/24/97 -0400, Marc Hurst wrote:
>The IANA model is broken. The US guv isn't supporting it, the Canadian 

	Repeating such statements does not make them true.

	As has been stated many, many time, the US government has not taken a
position on the matter.  It's one "official" pronouncement on the matter
was to say that it had no official position.

	On the other hand Ira Magaziner's comments a couple of weeks ago, at the
time of the White House electronic commerce announcement, were quite
supportive of the IAHC work, stating that it represented the kind of
private governance that they believe to be necessary.

>and can't support it because it does not scale to our culture.

	wow.  I would REALLY like to hear the details and basis for this assertion.

>and kicking last summer? I preached that international interests must be 
>recognised and when the MoU came out these issues were (and still are) 
>absent.

	You preached it, but that didn't make your assessment correct.  In fact,
your position is astonishing for the degree to which it is wrong.

d/
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