Milton: How about getting a hold of this "new" memo and posting it for all to see? trust and all that stuff...... >From: "Sheila O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Just talked with sheilla oneil Re: [IFWP] dnso.org lobbying t > actics >Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:50:38 -0500 >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >Gordon, > >Thank you for contacting me regarding the February 22nd memo to WITSA >members. As you can imagine, I was a little surprised to see it had >been posted to a public list. > >A new memo was sent out to all WITSA members this afternoon. As >communications between the WITSA staff and its members are not public >documents, I have not posted it to the IFWP. None of the WITSA members >who endorsed the BMW draft based on the February 22nd memo will be >listed as supporters unless we hear from them in response to the >clarification sent out this afternoon. > >Again, thank you for contacting me. I make an effort to provide WITSA >members with as accurate and timely information as possible and in those >instances where I do not, I am more than happy to rectify the situation. > >Sheila > >======================================================= >Sheila C. O'Neill >Vice President, Global Affairs >Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) >1616 North Fort Myer Drive, Suite 1300 >Arlington, VA 22209-3106 >Tel: + 1 (703) 284-5329 >Fax: + 1 (703) 525-2279 >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >URL: http://www.itaa.org >======================================================= >Register for the International Software Assurance Certification >Conference--February 28-March 2, 1999--Northern Virginia > >Join us at ITAA's 4th Annual Public Policy Summit in Washington, DC - >Monday-Tuesday, March 15-16, 1999 > >Register for the Second Annual National Convocation on the IT >Workforce--April 12-13, 1999--Austin, Texas > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Gordon Cook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 3:10 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Just talked with sheilla oneil Re: [IFWP] dnso.org >> lobbying tactics >> >> >> >> Milton wrote: >> >> >As you can see from the letter below, WITSA and ITAA are lobbying >> >their members to support the BMW proposal. In the process, they are >> >telling untruths about the alternative, Paris draft proposal. Ms. >> >O'Neill below implies that the Paris draft proposal was signed *only* >> >by NSI and ORSC. She does not mention the AIP, the DNRC, nor the 20+ >> >ccTLD registries who have also supported the Paris draft. >> Furthermore, >> >using the time honored but now rather wearying ISOC-POC-PAB-CORE >> >tactics, they attempt to base their appeal for support almost >> entirely >> >on animosity to NSI, thus proving that they have no interest in >> moving >> >beyond the factional divisions that have stymied progress in Internet >> >administration for the past four years. >> > >> >Unfortunately, many WITA/ITAA members will not know enough about this >> >issue to perceive the false claims. Ms. O'Neill distributed a canned >> >boilerplate "letter of support" to their members, and presumably some >> >of them will forward it, filling in the blanks. This is perhaps a >> >foretaste of what the people who run the dnso.org consider to be >> >"representation" and "bottom up governance." >> > >> >The ICANN/White Paper process was supposed to represent "industry >> >self-governance" based on private-sector "consensus-building" outside >> >of government. It should be clear by now that the factions and >> >factional alignments have not changed, and that the process is >> nothing >> >more than a vehicle for one faction to win at the expense of others. >> >--MM >> >> >> Milt and list readers, I just reached Sheilla by phone and informed >> her of >> the black and white inaccuracies in the memo that you posted. >> >> She wanted to know what memo. When I identified it she wanted to know >> who >> posted it. i said you. The gist of her reaction was of course that >> the >> memo was not intended for public distribution. >> >> when I informed her that DNRC, AIP, Center, and 20 CC administrators >> had >> also signed the 'other draft' she wanted to know when. I said it was >> at >> the end of the meeting in paris that produced what is known as the >> Paris >> draft. she said she was unaware of the Paris draft because she had >> dropped >> off the IFWP list in early January. She reads the ICANN lists. And I >> guess but am not certain the DNSO lists. >> >> I pointed out that she was going to dismiss ORSC as an organization of >> 7 or >> 8 individuals, she should have the integrity to say that ORSC along >> with >> BWG was designated by the Adminsitration (magaziner) as more >> responsive in >> its bylaws to the concerns of the white paper than ICANN. And that >> she >> should say that ORSC was also composed of individuals excluded by her >> signatories POC, CORE, ISOC etc from consideration of their own domain >> name >> issue over the last 2 years. >> >> I pointed out that her statements to her members that ICANN had been >> assigned control of critcical internet functions such as domain names >> and >> root servers by the US governmnet was false. And needed correction. >> >> She said of course she would see that her members got factually >> accurate >> data and promised to sign on to IFWP immediately. I gave her >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] as address and advised her to contact richard >> sexton >> if that didn't work. >> >> I would hope that she will post her revised memo before the end of the >> day >> and ask the person who was going to call members to be certain that >> her >> members got the corrected memo first. now if I believe that this will >> happen maybe someone has a bridge to sell me? Let's see what the word >> of >> WITSA is worth. >> >> >> >> ********************************************************************** >> ***** >> The COOK Report on Internet 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA >> (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://www.cookreport.com >> >> NOTE: Contempt in which ICANN PRES. MIKE ROBERTS holds rest of >> Internet: >> "Some of those people think the management [ICANN] should check with >> the >> public [the Communities of the Internet] every time they make a >> decision, >> which is crazy," Roberts said. "That's flat-out crazy." WIRED NEWS >> 2/4/99 >> ********************************************************************** >> ***** > *************************************************************************** The COOK Report on Internet 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cookreport.com NOTE: Contempt in which ICANN PRES. MIKE ROBERTS holds rest of Internet: "Some of those people think the management [ICANN] should check with the public [the Communities of the Internet] every time they make a decision, which is crazy," Roberts said. "That's flat-out crazy." WIRED NEWS 2/4/99 ***************************************************************************
