Bah Humbug. Another group of self perpetuating beltway insider elites.
Here the reaction of someone I know well.
Pretty egotistical group, I would say! Self perpetuating board which
ponders all these sweeping subjects, never 'lobbies' but influences
policies by 'educating' policy makers with their 'insights' on all these
danged thing about the Internet. Unclear just *what* the organizer's
agenda is, or what Great Things are expected to be accomplished worth
all this effort. Looks to me like it is arrogating itself to be the
Information Age successor to the Council of Foreign Relations, olympian in
view, and biased toward large corporate-business influence and inside
the Beltway.
>From the IPI annopuncement.
First, the Governing Board will be self-perpetuating (soliciting
nominations widely with new board members elected by the current board)
with staggered terms for the members and term limits for both board
membership and for officers. Further, the Board should be broadly
representative, with individuals whose primary affiliations or experience
are in the full range of organizations with an interest in the Internet's
development and use: companies, universities, non-profit research groups,
and advocacy groups, both inside and outside of the United States.
The perpetraitors.
Working Group
for
The Internet Policy Institute
April 1999\
Kimberly Jenkins, Chairman, Highway 1
Alfred R. Berkeley, President, NASDAQ Stock Market
Erich Bloch, President, Washington Advisory Group, LLC
Earving L. Blythe, Vice President for Information Systems,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Fred L. Bollerer, President and CEO, The Potomac KnowledgeWay
Jack Breese, Assistant Director, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corp.
Michael A. Daniels, Chairman, Network Solutions, Inc. and Vice President,
Science Applications International Corp.
Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure Holdings, Inc., and interim chairman,
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Sherrilynne Fuller, Head, Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of
Washington School of Medicine
B. Keith Fulton, Director for Technology Programs and Policy,
National Urban League
Robert E. Kahn, President, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Alan G. Merten, President, George Mason University
Harris N. Miller, President, Information Technology Association of America
Mario Morino, Chairman, The Morino Institute
Dan Mote, President, University of Maryland, College Park
Theodore O. Poehler, Vice Provost for Research, Johns Hopkins University
Adam C. Powell III, Vice President, Technology and Programs,
The Freedom Forum
Jonathan Sallet, Chief Policy Counsel, MCI Worldcom
Larry L. Smarr, Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alan G. Spoon, President and CEO, The Washington Post Co.
Robert Templin, President, Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology
George Vradenburg III, Senior Vice President, Global and Strategic Policy,
America Online, Inc.
>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.
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