And anyone seriously thinks one can negotiate with him and what he
represents in good faith?
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kent Crispin writes:
[...]
> For the WMB application (In the interests of avoiding possible
> Intellectual Property entanglements I shall use "WMB" from now on,
> instead of "BMW" :-)) we have the following submitters:
> ITAA -- 11000 members
> INTA -- 3200 members, 113 countries
> EuroISPA -- Largest ISP association in the world
> ICC -- 7000 members, 63 countries
> AILPA -- over 10000 members
> ISOC -- 6000 members, 150 countries
> WITSA -- International Consortium of organizations
> ECE -- New European organization just started w/ support of
> european commission
> CORE -- 85 registrars, 23 countries
> POC -- represents 200+ MoU Signatories
The figures are laughable. Note that DNSO.ORG is not listed as
supporting the DNSO.ORG "WMB" draft. That's correct, because I doubt
anyone in there but the lobbists and Kent support it.
> This represents substantial business, user, registry/registry, and
> general internet organizations.
This represents nothing.
> For Paris we have the following submitters
>
> NSI - one business
That would be the understatement of the year.
> ORSC - a mailing list and a shell corporation
Not the difference between POC and ORSC.
> AIP - 8500 internet professionals from 50 countries
>
> The Paris draft has an additional list of supporters, who were not
> submitters:
>
> DNRC -- 3 or 4 lawyers
> DSo Internet Services -- a company
> ICIIU -- Michael Sondow
> Image Online Design, Inc -- a company
> ISP/C -- a respectable internet organization, membership numbers uncertain
Note the "respecteable",
> I should note that the WMB has a *very* large number of
> non-submitting organizations that support it. But we elected not to
> try to submit such a list, because it would be rather unwieldy, and
> a lot of work to assemble, and the list of blanket organizations was
> impressive enough.
That's a Jeff Williams, not even fitting on the Kent-Meter.
[...]
All in all 8 on the Kent-Meter.
el
