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s/icann/icann, the rirs, .../
all this is a social experiment to see how many bureaucrats, amateur politicians (though the professionals are entering the fray), bureaucrats, lawyers, and just plain slimeballs it takes to replace one part-time computer scientist (whose 60th birthday would have been last wednesday).
randy
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Subject: Re: [address-policy-wg] Summary of the PI Task Force's recent discussions
s/icann/icann, the rirs, .../
all this is a social experiment to see how many bureaucrats, amateur politicians (though the professionals are entering the fray), bureaucrats, lawyers, and just plain slimeballs it takes to replace one part-time computer scientist (whose 60th birthday would have been last wednesday).
randy
To some extent i have to agree with you Randy, but i also think we where taken advantage of by the suits. Once our computer scientist had passed on the community panicked, the last thing we wanted was a government agency running the show and the bureaucrats knew this. The bureaucrats held out their hands and we grabbed hold out of the fire into the fire some might say. But the bottom line is we can not change it now and to some extent it has stabilized, what we have to keep doing is not let them run the show and make sure it still works for us from the bottom up. Its easy to be bitter but lets channel that energy into making it better not complaining. The NCC lost their way for a bit and with some strong recommendations from the community pulled them selves back on track (not maybe all the way but at least what we have now is better than before the recommendations). Remember we ultimately hold the purse strings ;) BTW its good to be back. Stephen Burley Not working for a corporate corrupt giant anymore. Internet Communications Consultant Africonnect PS sorry if you got this mail twice.