At 10:39 PM 6/13/99 -0400, Richard J. Sexton wrote:
>Jolly good, but I did ask what it was spent on, as oppose to was it
Indeed, you did ask that. It was curious that a pointed question about
individual financial affiliation with a large commercial monopoly that is
trying to sway this process was followed by your entirely unrelated query
about general expenditure of funds by another group. One might think that
you were trying to distract the discussion.
>wasn't spent on. Maybe you sould loosen up a bit. Take a shower, change
Thank you for those suggestions. They all are quite pleasant, if
irrelevant and ad hominem.
Again, one might think that your notes are seeking to avoid any meaningful
attention to the fact that a number of supposedly independent NSI
supporters are in the pay of NSI.
> >That's different from being hired for consulting, as NSI has done for Jay.
>
>Good point. How dare they use outside consultants. Bastards! Clearly they
It is not all that difficult to distinguish between the ethical question of
having supposedly independent voices, in effect doing public lobbying on
behalf of their client, versus the more general issue of any group's
spending any money to boutside uy assistance.
On the other hand, that is the second time (in the same message) that a
specific and focused issue got turned into something much more general and
entirely unrelated.
>Yes, and bully for you. I see your point. Jay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has
>no reason to want there to be a process to get new TLDs into the root.
>Crafty devil that Jay. But, goodness, what persistence. Three years
>babbling on about wanting to get .PER into the root, gosh, what tenacity.
If one wishes a particular outcome and one sees that it is unlikely to
happen, given current processes, then there is considerable benefit in
seeking delay, in the hope that conditions will change. That is the game a
number of players have been engaged in, while forcefully lobbying for
changes which will favor them and digging their heels in when they do not
get their way.
In any event, it remains interesting to see trivializing and distraction
used in such heavy-handed fashion to keep from attending to serious
questions of misconduct.
d/
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