In my opinion, all of the IETF leaders, especially those who are U.S. citizens, should take a long time to take a long look at what they have not helped to accomplish with their ICANN. The world will no doubt route around you with the Next Generation Internet, InfiniBAND, etc. You can stand firm in your convictions to censor and to restrict access to the legacy root name servers, which are now largely irrellevent. As our President Bush and many of the Congressional leaders have noted, Americans stand strong and will move forward and will innovate and compete, and show the world they are united. New.Net and other companies stand as a shining memorial to the spirit of the American people and American ISPs willing to stand up to the ICANN/IETF machine. You have not defeated us.
Jim Fleming http://www.in-addr.info 3:219 INFO http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Einar Stefferud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:28 PM Subject: Re: in memoriam > At 06:05 PM 10/18/2001, Einar Stefferud wrote: > >What I think is a real shame is that ICANN might be mistakenly > >considered by some people to to be a monument to Jon Postel... > > with all due respect, would you mind if I spent a few minutes thinking > about Jon, the good things he did and left, and the good things we can do > and leave while standing on his shoulders? > > Take this other stuff somewhere else. I don't need you to ruin my day. >
