At 04:49 PM 8/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
>At 12:07 PM 8/4/99 -0700, Sheffo, Joe wrote:
>>Attached is Chairman Bliley's letter of July 28. Please feel free to
>>contact me if you have any questions or would like comments from someone
>>with ICANN.
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>
>>Joseph S. Sheffo
>>415-923-1660
>
>Sure, ask them why they havn't aswered Jonothon Zittrain's
>question in over a month despite being asked half a dozen times.
>
>And ask how this jives with Eshters recent quote to Nader "we
>respond when we're asked a question"
>
Joe, while you are at it, ask them why they have not answered the direct
questions I posed to Esther and the board more than two months ago, despite
Esther's written commitment to me to provide a response.
Gene Marsh
>
>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: "Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [IFWP] "When we are asked direct questions we answer them." - E.
> Dyson.
>Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 15:52:14 -0400 (EDT)
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>
>28 days and counting...
>
>>Esther, Mike, Joe,
>>
>>Is there any particular ICANN view on efforts to set up alternative root
>>systems? I'd figured that ICANN would be neutral on it--it's got a mandate
>>to (eventually, if all proceeds a particular way) maintain and manage the
>>contents of the legacy IANA root, without regard to whatever other systems
>>may be in development. Others worry that ICANN would view alternative
>>roots as hostile challenges to its authority.
>>
>>If there's no ICANN policy on it, do you have views on it in your
>>respective capacities? Thanks! ...Jonathan
>>
>>At 05:39 PM 7/3/99 , Richard Sexton wrote:
>>>At 05:07 PM 7/3/99 -0400, Jonathan Zittrain wrote:
>>> >purely neutral with respect to it: "We just manage the old IANA root; set
>>> >up your own if you like and God bless!" ...JZ
>>>
>>>You're closer to them than we are Jonothon, why don't you ask them.
>>>
>>>Frankly I expect rhetoric out of them: "renegade", "pirate",
>>>"anarchist" and so on and so forth.
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>"They were of a mind to govern us and we were of a mind to govern
ourselves."
>>
>>
>>Jon Zittrain
>>Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law
School
>>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
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