Dave,
Whereas there were no formal selection criteria, I was
personally involved in recommending several people who I
knew did not have funding. My criteria were as follows: (1)
people who were actively involved in the relevant
discussions on the lists I monitored (Domain-Policy and
IFWP); (2) people who appeared to be objective in their
analysis of issues; (3) people who appeared to favor a free
market type approach rather than a regulated approach; and
(4) people who needed funding. In each case it was someone
with whom I had been able to have a rational dialog on
issues where we disagreed. Moreover, rational dialog does
not mean that they changed their positions.
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Crocker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 7:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IFWP] NSI's selective funding policy
At 12:14 PM 2/25/99 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Is your definition of an antagonist one who does not
support ICANN? Should
>we all just blindly accept everything that ICANN proposes,
without careful
>analysis and evaluation? I really doubt that you feel that
way.
Chuck,
Since you typically try to offered reasoned and reasonable
notes and since
is the second note you have posted to this thread using
hostile, ad
absurdum statements, let me suggest that you are either
reacting rather too
defensively or you are consciously trying to distract us
from serious
consideration of my statement.
NSI chose to fund people who are vigorous opponents to
proposals on the
table. Kent listed some names; there are more. Rather than
just attack
anyone who points out this selective behavior by NSI, how
about explaining
the exact decision process that led to NSI's giving money to
some activists
and not others. NSI did not make public that it would
offering funding, so
there was opportunity for others to seek that assistance.
So why did those who got money get it and others not?
d/
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