[ppml] composition of and representation on the BoT

[Hannigan, Martin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen at delong.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 12:11 PM
> To: John Brown CT; Hannigan, Martin
> Cc: ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [ppml] composition of and representation on the BoT
> 
> 
> > which is why printed newspapers are going out of business in record
> > number.  not.
> 
> The majority of newspaper readers are _NOT_ interested in internet 
> governance.
> This is an absurd correlation.

Not totally.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=ICANN

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=ITU

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Internet+governance%2
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> 
> Yes, the average joe end-user probably reads a fair amount of stuff 
> off-line.

> That does not mean that the average person interested in 
> internet policy
> wants their internet policy information off-line.> 

I think the point, at least from my perspective, wasn't about
the newspaper, or the corporate CIO. It was about the somewhat 
disenfranchised which is what Mr. Massell was getting at. Or
so I thought.

-M<