----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Toru Takahashi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "ietf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 11:49 PM Subject: Re: in memoriam
> it is important to pass the culture and people on to the students. > and those of us of later age have to think what it means to us. > you were in hospital, and i had my heart attack two months later. > will we have contributed to constructive change even a fraction > of what jon did? some days i have hope. > > randy > The ICANN/IETF "culture" of having self-appointed leaders restrict the access to scarce resources (for their personal gain) is exactly the culture most of the world is opposing in the Middle East. The resource there is oil, and the people are suppressed by leaders who hand down control from one generation to the next, via a shadowy network of insiders. In my opinion, Americans are working hard to show the world that their culture of democracy and capitalism is a better way to go. On October 25, 2001, Microsoft will help to promote that "culture". While you are of course free to promote your ICANN "culture", I think people around the world will eventually choose freedom. If they do not, then they have themselves to blame. They now will have a choice. Jim Fleming http://www.unir.com Mars 128n 128e http://www.unir.com/images/architech.gif http://www.unir.com/images/address.gif http://www.unir.com/images/headers.gif http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/tpipv6/start.asp http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg12213.html http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg12223.html
