RE $50 Million NSF windfall??

[Jim Fleming]

On Thursday, March 13, 1997 1:43 PM, Chris A. Icide[SMTP:chris at nap.net] wrote:
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@ 
@ I propose that you have such a rough time listening/respecting your views for several
@ reasons, including, but not limited to the following:
@ 

Do you mean getting "other people" to listen and respect ?

If so, let me point out that the Internet is not where non-technical
decisions are being made. Most of the interchanges on the
Internet are..."for the record", historical notes and time stamps.

I always find it humerous in Internet debates that Internet
regulars will point to one product or service or new idea
and diminish it by claiming that it has small market share.
They forget that the Internet has a small market share and
most of the people in the world do not have access and
many who do could care less.

It would be nice if this were not the case, but as we see
with a simple topic like ARIN and the more complex issues
of IP Address Management, the people making the decisions
are simply not here. The ARIN Board is not even here.

The vast majority of people are still using the old-shool,
and costly approaches of flying around the world, and
phoning around the world to lobby for their support. In
the end, those are the people that will triumph because
they have the resources to take those flights and to make
those calls. It is called economic discrimination.

In summary, the net has not changed the world yet.
The Internet has a very small market share when it
comes to the decision makers.


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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation

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