It should also be pointed out that recently Jeff Williams and INEG claimed to
have hosted a conference in Dallas with 12,000 participants at the Texas
Stadium and the "INEG Campus." Note : The Texas Stadium has indicated they do
NOT host these types of events, and indeed did NOT host this event at all.
None of the Dallas Hotels or Media had ANY information of such a large
conference in their city as you would expect them to of any event of that size.
Further Jeff Williams and INEG were unable to provide ANY written information
on the event to those that requested it, including a media representative who
spent quite a few days trying to get Mr Williams to provide this information to
her via ANY means other than an unverifiable email with facts that could not be
independently verified by anyone who tried.
Then he posted the "reports" of those meetings in an attempt to try to
influence the ICANN process with the weight of, to use his words, the largest
stakeholder group.
I am sure the person claiming to be Jeffrey Williams is getting a good laugh
out of the Wired article.
On 03-Mar-99 William X. Walsh wrote:
>
> From the Wired Article :
> "When you've got over 12,000 stakeholders who don't agree, I'd hardly call
> that
> consensus," said Jeffrey Williams, spokesman for the Internet Network
> Engineering Group, which sent representatives to Singapore."
>
>
> Jeffrey Williams is not who he claims to be.
>
> http://www.dso.net/wwalsh/jeffw/
>
> Jeffrey Williams has also claimed :
>
>
> -- to be the Chief Executive Officer and the Co-Founder of the 4.8
> billion dollar privately held employee owned INEG. INC
>
> -- to be the Director of Internet Network Engineering and Senior
> Java/CORBA Engineer for the Information Network Engineering Group,
> INEG INC.
>
> -- to be an ex-IBM Fellow,
>
> -- to have to have graduated from UTD and to have a law degree from
> SMU Law School
>
> -- to have three degrees, MBA, Masters in Computer Science and
> Engineering, and Law
>
> -- to have served as a judge for 7 years
>
> -- to be a member of the IETF
>
> -- to serve on several medium sized business boards and on the boards
> of several banks
>
> -- to be the author of two books and is working on a third
>
> -- to own 3 ISPs, including Frisco net, Deltanet and Wiltel, with 1.6
> million users
>
> -- to have been a fighter pilot with USMC, flying missions in Chile
> and for the DEA, as a reserve pilot in the USMC, stationed out of
> Grand Prairie air station just south of Dallas
>
> -- to have been acting squadron commander of the Marine combat F4
> squadron VMF214 (Black Sheep) at Tan Son Nhut during the Viet Nam war
>
> -- to have spent several years in NIS (Naval Investigative Service)
>
> -- Graduate of Naval Staff & War College
>
> -- Retired Colonel, United States Marine Corps
>
> (Taken from the Jeff William's FAQ prepared by Darrell Greenwood, reprinted
> with permission, see http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/msg03008.html for
> a
> full copy)
>
> Many of these claims have already been proven to be wrong (SMU's Registrar
> indicated that NO Jeffrey A. Williams has been granted a law degree from
> their
> esteemed institution, for example.)
>
> When reporters carelessly print quotes without verifying that the
> organization
> even EXISTS (no telephone listings, no business license or corporation
> filings
> for example, all easily verified) they aid and abette the perpetration of
> this
> fraud.
>
> I STRONGLY urge any and all reporters to be VERY careful in who they are
> printing quotes from so they are not unwitting participants in Jeff's fraud
> and games that he has been playing throughout the DNS Wars.
>
> You can see that Jeff is already trying to capitalize on the exposure from
> this
> article :
>
> On 03-Mar-99 jeff Williams wrote to all of these same lists this message is
> sent to:
>
> > All,
> >
> > http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18245.html
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Jeffrey A. Williams
> > CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
> > Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
> > E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Contact Number: 972-447-1894
> > Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
>
> It should also noted that this phone number rings to a room at the Homestead
> Inn, a residency hotel in Dallas, TX. OF course, it is the ONLY phone
> number
> Jeff will provide for INEG or for ANY INEG associates/employees even those
> not
> in Dallas, claiming it is used by some elaborate call routing system
> (despite
> the fact that he personally answers it many times). You tell me, would the
> CEO
> of a multi-billion dollar company answer the only line that will be given
> out
> for the thousands of employees and associates they claim to have?
>
> It is time for this farce to end.
>
> ----------------------------------
> E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 03-Mar-99
> Time: 15:29:44
> ----------------------------------
> "We may well be on our way to a society overrun by hordes
> of lawyers, hungry as locusts."
> - Chief Justice Warren Burger, US Supreme Court, 1977
>
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E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 03-Mar-99
Time: 15:50:27
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"We may well be on our way to a society overrun by hordes
of lawyers, hungry as locusts."
- Chief Justice Warren Burger, US Supreme Court, 1977
