PAB Re: Global Incorporation Alliance Workshop?

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 10:14:18AM -0700, Karl Auerbach wrote:
> > See http://www.giaw.org
> 
> I see that it says that:
> 
>         All parties filing full comments to the NTIA proceeding dealing with
>         incorporation matters are being expressly invited.
> 
> Since I have not been invited, I guess my 53 pages of comments did not
> constitute "full comments".

PAB, ISOC, POC all made contributions.  None of them have been 
invited.  I suspect that IANA (which also made comments) has not been 
invited, either.  However, the phrase is "are being".  I expect my 
invitation will arrive very soon :-).

> Sigh, looks like yet another orchestrated-in-DC-by-beltway-bandits kind of
> meeting.
> 
> I suggest that those of us who have an open point of view and are not
> NSI/NTIA sycophants organize a real meeting.
> 
> I suggest the Monterey Bay area as a meeting place.  (Much nicer then DC
> in the Summer, and also the site of the original TCP/IP Interoperability
> Meetings from the mid to late 1980's.)

I actually think that IANA should call a meeting.  Monterey Bay would 
be great as far as I am concerned, of course.  Would you be 
interested in working to put together such a meeting?

> I suggest we put it up on the Internet's MBone for worldwide audio/video
> participation by people all over the world who can not be physically
> present.

A great idea.

> Indeed, I suggest that it would be organized by people who understand the
> Internet enought to actually have e-mail addresses and reverse domain name
> mappings for their web sites.
> 
> Alternatively, I suggest we gather at the next IETF meeting.  It's in
> Chicago in mid-to-late August.

Another possibility is following the ISOC meeting in Geneva in July.  
Much less convenient for us; much more convenient for european 
participants.   

But there is a lot of work to do, and many people must be involved.  
So I suspect there will be many meetings.

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