On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 03:04:48PM -0400, Jay Fenello wrote:
> At 12:53 PM 10/14/99 , Kent Crispin wrote:
> >Jay Fenello in the news:
> >
> >http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/10/circuits/articles/14spin.html
> >
> >Is it relevant that someone is paid by an entity with a major
> >financial stake in the issues?
>
>
> Hi Kent,
>
> Thanks for the publicity :-)
>
> BTW, I'm not sure I understand your point.
>
> I mean, doesn't Marilyn Cade get paid to
> represent AT&T, or John Patrick, to represent
> IBM? How about Jonathan Cohen, to represent
> trademark interests for his firm?
Substantial difference: they are indeed paid to represent their
employers. You, on the other hand, were paid to operate as an
apparently independent agent.
> Or how about all of those trade associations?
> You know, like CIX, who seems to change positions
> on a whim? Or like Jerry Berman's group, who
> recently affiliated with the GIP, and nominated
> Rick White?
>
> And what about people like Tamar Frankle, now a
> Berkman Fellow? And what about the Berkman center,
> and their financial relationship with ICANN?
Eh?
> As I mentioned in the article, everyone earns a
> living somehow, and there will always be a way
> to claim that it influences their position.
>
> This applies even to you!
>
> Here's one from the archives:
Now that's an irrelevant treasure! -- a deconstruction of one of my
old papers by one of those individuals who has resided in my email
filters for a very long time. Steve Page, as it turns out, is an
optometrist who sells eyeware in a Costco store down the road from
where I work. I gave up reading his messages a long time ago,
because what he writes is always very large -- he submitted multiple
massive comments to the White Paper: in total volume I believe more
than any other single entity.
I sent an early draft of that paper to an email list something over
a year ago, and it is now quite out of date. A partially updated
version can be found at
http://songbird.com/kent/papers/regulation.txt,
if anyone is interested in reading it in a less mangled form.
--
Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lonesome." -- Mark Twain
