On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Dave Crocker wrote:
> At 09:38 PM 2/25/99 +0000, Jim Dixon wrote:
> >You made a flat assertion without any limitation on it. Your assertion
> >was demonstrably false. What you said was:
> >
> >I then listed real, functioning Internet organizations (ISPA UK, EuroISPA,
> >the LINX, the Internet Watch Foundation, MaNAP) where I have made the
> >contributions you claim I haven't. I am still a director of three of
> >these. In other words, Dave, you are wrong. Have the grace to admit it.
Note that our Dave has omitted what he said. Just as well, I
suppose.
> Jim, you provided an extensive vitae of your various community
> involvements. My question was rather more simple than that and your
> response was, well, non-responsive.
You didn't ask a question. You said that I only complained and never
actually contributed anything. My reply was that in a time in which you
helped give the world IAHC and the well-named POC, I helped build working
Internet institutions. Real ones, that actually do something, with real
constituencies.
> What detailed proposals, in the realm of gTLD and/or IANA enhancement, that
> have been put forward and that have developed a constituency working to
> move it forward have you supported?
Dave, I don't care where I am on the CrockMeter.
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Jim Dixon Managing Director
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