Dave and all,
Yep, looks like Esther is gad flying again or playing the CYA game
to the extreme.
The divisiveness continues....
Dave Farber wrote:
> At 06:49 PM 4/13/99 -0400, interesting_people wrote:
>
> >>From: "Tim Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>To: "Dave Farber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>
> >>
> >>FYI, CNN's take on the IPI
> >>
> >>Latest Internet Policy Group Sprouts In Washington
> >>April 12, 1999: 4:52 p.m. ET
> >>By Robert MacMillan, Newsbytes
> >>http://www.cnnfn.com/digitaljam/newsbytes/129140.html
> >>
> >> WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A. (NB) -- As the Internet becomes more popular in the
> >>American public, it tends to gather bills and lobby groups like barnacles.
> >>The latest of these, the Internet Policy Institute (IPI), was announced
> >>today.
> >>The IPI's working group is chaired by Kimberly Jenkins, the chairman and
> >>founder of Highway 1, a group known to the political technology followers in
> >>Washington as the non-profit corporation that casts itself as a "nonpartisan
> >>resource on information technologies" for federal, state and local
> >>government.
> >>Jenkins told Newsbytes the group has not yet "gotten down to the nitty-
> >>gritty" on particular issues on which it will focus, but said that it will
> >>analyze economic policy, law and regulation. Some preliminary discussion
> >>points may include intellectual property, state issues and general legal
> >>frameworks. IPI is designed in a similar frame to Highway 1, in that IPI is
> >>supposed to provide "high-quality analysis, research, education and outreach
> >>on a full range of economic, social and policy issues affecting and affected
> >>by the global development and use of the Internet."
> >>In an initial IPI statement, the group said its founding money came from
> >>America Online Inc. [NYSE:AOL], the Nasdaq exchange, the Morino Institute,
> >>MCI WorldCom [NASDAQ:WCOM], Network Solutions Inc. [NASDAQ:NSOL], the
> >>Potomac KnowledgeWay and the World Information Technology and Services
> >>Alliance.
> >>The Potomac KnowledgeWay, itself another non-profit "educational"
> >>organization located outside of Washington in Herndon, Va., hired the
> >>Washington Advisory Group, a science and technology consulting firm, to
> >>handle the proposal for the IPI.
> >>"This is the right idea at the right time," Jenkins said. "In less than a
> >>decade the Internet has grown from a network used primarily by university
> >>researchers and computer hobbyists to a thriving communications medium that
> >>links more than 100 million individuals worldwide. With the policy makers of
> >>both the United States and many of the major industrialized nations focusing
> >>an increasing amount of attention on the Internet, it has become critical to
> >>bring the global thinking, research and debate on these issues together in
> >>one central location."
> >>The IPI's working group -- it's nerve center -- includes Jenkins; NASDAQ
> >>President Alfred R. Berkeley; Virginia Polytechnic Institute for Information
> >>Systems Vice President Earving L. Blythe; Microsoft Corp.'s Research
> >>Assistant Director Jack Breese; Network Solutions Chairman Michael A.
> >>Daniels; Esther Dyson, the chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned
> >>Names and Numbers (ICANN); George Mason University President Alan G. Merten;
> >>University of Maryland, College Park President Dan Mote; Johns Hopkins
> >>University Vice Provost for Research Theodore O. Poehler; Freedom Forum Vice
> >>President of Technology and Programs Adam C. Powell III; MCI WorldCom Chief
> >>Policy Counsel Jonathan Sallet; Washington Post Co. President and CEO Alan
> >>G. Spoon; and AOL Senior Vice President for Global and Strategic Policy
> >>George Vradenburg III.
> >>Noting that the working group and the seed capital sources represent several
> >>companies and other groups with very specific high-tech agendas on the Hill,
> >>Jenkins said that "we are taking great pains to make sure that the funding
> >>comes from diverse sources."
> >>
> >>Copyright � 1999 CNN America, Inc.
> >>
> >>_________________________________________________________
> >>Tim Smith
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