Vint Cerf sinks to new depths of dishonesty and manipulation by
using - and abusing - the format of the IETF RFC draft for making
demagogic personal speeches to spread ISOC lies:
> Informational Comment
> Vint Cerf
> Internet Draft
> Internet Society
> Document: draft-isoc-internet-for-everyone-00.txt
> April 1999
> Category: Informational
>
> The Internet is for Everyone
>
> Status of this Memo
>
> This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
> all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026 [1]. Internet-Drafts are
> working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its
> areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also
> distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are
> draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be
> updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It
> is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to
> cite them other than as "work in progress."
>
> The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
> http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
>
> The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
> http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
>
> 1. Abstract
>
> The Internet really is for everyone. However, it will only be such
> if we make it so.
>
> 2. The Internet is for everyone
>
> The Internet is for everyone!
>
> How easy to say - how hard to achieve!
>
> Where are we in achieving this noble objective?
Nowhere, Mr. Cerf, so long as you and ISOC continue to trick people
into thinking that you have the interests of everyone at heart, when
the truth is that you're only interested in yourself and your
buddies on the ISOC board.
> The Internet can facilitate democratic practices in unexpected ways.
> Did you know that proxy voting for stock shareholders is now
> commonly supported on the Internet?
So why didn't you let the ISOC members in Latin America and
elsewhere who were unable to vote, because you didn't send them
ballots, vote via the Internet for their candidates?
> The Internet is becoming the repository of all we have accomplished
> as a society. It is becoming a kind of disorganized Boswell of the
> human spirit. Be thoughtful in what you commit to email, news
> groups, and other media - it may well turn up in a web search some
> day.
You should have thought of that before you sent this paean to your
own godliness, cloaked as an Internet draft. The future web
searchers will have a good laugh.
> The Internet is moving off the planet! Already, interplanetary
> Internet is part of the NASA Mars mission program now underway at
> the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. By 2008 we should have a well-
> functioning Earth-Mars network that serves as a nascent backbone of
> an interplanetary system of Internets - InterPlaNet is a network of
> Internets! Ultimately, we will have interplanetary Internet relays
> in polar solar orbit so that they can see most of the planets and
> their interplanetary gateways for most if not all of the time.
ISOC, government of the Universe! Vint Cerf, ruler of space!
> The Internet is for everyone - but it won't be if it isn't
> affordable by all that wish to partake of its services, so we must
> dedicate ourselves to making Internet as affordable as other
> infrastructure so critical to our well being.
You unmitigated hypocrite. You say this, when you and your fake
organization are supporting CORE, the INTA, the ITU, and ICANN
regulation?
> The Internet is for everyone, - but it won't be if Governments
> restrict access to it
No government restriction. Only regulation and restriction by ISOC.
> so we must dedicate ourselves to keeping the
> network unrestricted, unfettered and unregulated. We must have the
> freedom to speak and the freedom to hear.
Who is this "we", Mr. Cerf? You and Don Heath?
> Let us dedicate ourselves to the support of the Internet
> Architecture Board, the Internet Engineering Steering Group, the
> Internet Research Task Force and the Internet Engineering Task Force
> as they drive us forward into an unbounded future.
Unbounded, that is, except by the draconian, anti-user regulation of
ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
> Let us dedicate ourselves to the creation of a
> global legal framework in which laws work across national boundaries
> to reinforce the upward spiral of value that Internet is capable of
> creating.
And make ISOC rich, by creating a world government that puts money
into ISOC's coffers via the ISOC-controlled ICANN regulator.
