Re: ISPs as stakeholders

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

At 09:00 PM 12/9/97 +0000, Jim Dixon wrote:
>This is the sort of totally unreasonable response that typifies this
>discussion and feeds the distrust that pervades many Internet circles.

Jim, the problem is that your approach to this topic has invited this sort
of response.

You did not begin by asking questions. Worse you did not pursue the
question as a general issue but, rather, as a particular deficiency of
having Switzerland as a venue.

All of this translates into your effort being a very good approximation of
an attack based on no information.  That isn't a very productive mode.  

>The question is not whether Switzerland is Good or Bad.  The question is

If you review your contributions you will find that that is exactly the
question you asked, except you didn't ask it, instead choosing to state
that it was your impression that it was bad...

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