At 10:05 AM 5/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
>On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 09:31:21AM -0500, Eric Weisberg wrote:
>> Izumi AIZU wrote:
>>
>> > But I want to state that the geographic diversity has been very much
>> > the consensus from last year's IFWP process,
>>
>> Only in an "aspirational" sense. We have never agreed that this form of
>> diversity should be imposed if it will frustrate other forms, as is the case
>> with the current proposal.
>
>I'm sorry, Eric. You are misinformed. Izumi is correct: geographic
>diversity has been an absolute requirement from very early on, and is
>a component of the White paper. We spent a great deal of time in the
>DNSO meetings discussing exactly this issue.
Then it should be easy for you to find the IFWP consensus items
from Reston, Geneva, Singapore that documetns this.
I'd stil prefer the ebst person for the job, not the most
politically correct person.
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