On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Richard J. Sexton wrote:
[Lessig:]
> >> > But second, and more to the point, I know first hand what lead to the end of
> >> > the IFWP process, as I was part of the negotiations in that process. Of all
> >> > the "parties" in that negotiation, Berkman was the last pushing for the
> >> > final meeting. We had been asked by NSI and IANA and IFWP's Tamar Frankel to
> >> > help broker a deal among these three actors to facilitate a final meeting
> >> > within the IFWP framework. Berkman had been, as you will recall, a strong
> >> > supporter of the IFWP process over IANA's; I personally had gone to Geneva
> >> > to help facilitate the drafting process, and had helped draft a final
> >> > statement of principles that was to constitute the source document for the
> >> > final meeting.
[Dixon:]
> >I was very much involved in this process and this doesn't square with
> >my recollection of what happened. Tamar Frankel was set against any
> >last IFWP meeting; she said as much at the Singapore IFWP conference
> >and at other times. She was afraid of what might happen at an open
> >conference; she wanted a controlled solution. And she got it: ICANN.
>
> That makes it sound like Tamar wanted ICANN and didn't want a wrap
> up meeting. Aren't you the same Jim Dixon that got me off to the
> side in Singapore and talked about a closed door wrap up meeting
> followed by an open meeting saying that Tamar, to be an effective
> negotiator between NSI and CORE had to have some semblnce of
> control over the meeting?
Yes, that was me. And it was a "semblence of control" that I had
in mind. ;-)
She and I had a long conversation in which she first expressed her
dislike of/grave doubts about an open meeting or any wrap-up
meeting at all. Then she suggested that Harvard would be willing
to supply a venue, so long as the text to be agreed upon was decided
in a closed workshop and then ratified in an open meeting.
This sounded to me like a workable compromise, so I supported it.
> In other words, Tamar wanted a wrap up meeting but not in the
> same format as the other 3.
>
> No ?
She wanted a controlled solution. In this she agreed with the rest.
I was willing to agree to anything that got us to an open and
therefore uncontrolled wrap-up meeting.
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