Re: Judge Defers AlterNIC Action

[Marc Hurst <mhurst@skyscape.net>]

On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Dave Crocker / IMC wrote:

> 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.

Such is true at least for the Canadian point of view... that is fact! 
I'll admit the US is still out on the fence on this one...

> 
> 	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.

Canada has TWO official languages. It is against the law (even in Quebec) 
to dictate what language you must either communicate in or do business 
in...

What about other officially bilingual countries... huh?

> 
> >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.

That is an ignorant miopic view and you will probably be flamed as a 
result... sorry about your luck...

> 
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