This is very interesting;-)...
I have seen no hostile ad homonim comments from Chuck Gomes, though I
might find the accusation of making them to be a case of making them.
Cheers...\Stef
>From your message Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:33:40 -0500:
}
}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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