Bob Helfant
At 08:45 PM 6/9/98 +0200, Dave Crocker wrote:
>At 10:48 AM 6/8/98 -0400, Bob Helfant wrote:
>>You would lead us all down the path again? Why not let IANA do its new job
>
>Bob,
>
>Small matters of fact get in the way with your comments:
>
>1. IANA does not have a new job. It has the same job it's had for 15
>years. What is going to be new is its legal home and funding source.
>That's all.
>
>2. As so many people like to forget, the IAHC work was commissioned by
>IANA and approved by IANA, so all that was being stated was the hope that
>we will not have further and unnecessary delays to implementing that work.
>
>
>At 04:47 PM 6/8/98 -0400, Bob Helfant wrote:
>>The finacial interest is what is driving the whole ball of wax. This is
>>not a cult anymore.
>
>I don't know what Internet you've read about or been dealing with, but it
>was never a "cult", Bob, and it's not very helpful for you to choose such
>deprecating and dismissive terminology in a discussion.
>
>You might, instead, remember that this technology was originally developed
>by the military and it has been dominated by commercial interests for
>roughly 10 years. No doubt that's before your time, but it's been
>mentioned before.
>
>d/
>
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