Where are you in meat space?
At 12:58 PM 3/25/99 +0100, you wrote:
>At 01:09 AM 3/24/99 -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:
>>Whoever it is described IETF as the "single largest repository of sane
>>understanding of the social consequences of the Internet."
>>
>>Social consequences, eh? Take that, all you economists, psychologists,
>>historians, sociologists, law professors, and other rabble who think you have
>>something to contribute. Who needs you? If I can design a protocol and make a
>>computer hum, I must know all there is to know about the social consequences of
>>the Internet.
>
>
>Milton,
>
>The logical process which takes a claim that one group is a large repository of
>expertise, and turns it into an interpretation of that claim as meaning that no one
>outside that group is relevant would be curious to have explained, since it is such a
>creative logical process.
>
>By way of similarly interpreting meaning, I gather that you consider direct and
>long-term experience with the social consequences of the environment in question to
>be irrelevant, particularly if one happens to have obtained that experience while
>writing protocols?
>
>I suppose it is also irrelevant that many of those within the IETF have training
>beyond writing protocols, including some of those specialties you cited, such as law
>and psychology?
>
>Would it not be more productive to focus the moral outrage on the continued detriment
>of the user community, who remain deprived on additional DNS name space and DNS
>registration competition, after five years of delay?
>
>d/
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