Sounds like Lauren is doing the old paddling trick. I think Lauren and
Peter have discovered that ICANN's control of the root is based on consent
of the masses and as that consent vaporizes Lauren and Peter seem to be
making some effort at attempting consent. I smell an election somewhere -
don't you?
Joe Baptista
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Michael Sondow wrote:
> Lauren Weinstein of PFIR wrote:
>
> > We basically have not felt that there was much point in participating
> > in the existing (broken) ICANN process. There hasn't been a budget
> > that would allow for flying around to the meetings in any case...
> > That's big bucks to us.
>
> > Though Peter and I as individuals both
> > have affiliations with ACM (RISKS / PRIVACY), we want to make it
> > very clear that ACM has zero relationship with PFIR.
>
> > I should also
> > add that we make no bones about the fact that we have disagreements
> > with some ACM policies as well.
>
> > Peter and I started PFIR without any prior discussion with ACM, and
> > ACM has no approval, control, input, or any other relationship
> > with what we do in regards to PFIR. I'd appreciate it much if you
> > would consider clarifying this to the mailing lists.
>
> > There's been so much bad blood over Internet policies throughout the last
> > couple of years. It's really important that efforts be made to try to get past
> > that and move forward in a positive way.
>
>
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