Re: hello dave farber Re: [IFWP] Vint Cerf's and John Patricks House of Cards - the ICANN NSI Cartel and DOC authority

[Greg Skinner]

At 08:24 AM 10/2/99 -0700, Richard Sexton wrote:
> Vixie is an extremist. Back when the birth of news:alt was the bigest
> mess on the net he was the only backbone cabal memebr that thought this
> would be the death of the net (or so I'm told). There are root server
> operators that take the opposite extreme view from Paul. On average
> though they're a resonable bunch by anybodys standards.

Well, Vixie has shown that he can be an activist on issues that he feels
are important and threaten the net.  Look at the work he has done on
RBL.  Also note the considerable support he has gotten from the Internet
community -- particularly the ISP community (the very people whose
support is necessary to make alternative root servers visible on a
netwide scale).  Legal actions may be taken against them, yet they are
willing to follow his lead, because they believe in what he is doing.

--gregbo