----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Touch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Although there are irony points for holding an off-line networking > meeting :-)) >
It is humerous in 2001, to see people sitting in a meeting, all with their lap-tops in front of them, and all saying, "let me check the net", or, "let me send you that via the net". It is sad, when the meetings are de-railed by people not on-line and not connected. Those people are living in a time-warp. Some may only read e-mail once a month. They are out-of-date before they arrive, and never catch up. Face-to-face meetings of course are used to perform the subtle act of "economic discrimination". Those with the money can attend and those who can not afford to attend are excluded. The handicapped are also excluded. Deaf people love it when people send them e-mails saying, "Call me, let's discuss this....yet IRC, ICQ and other tools are not considered...". It is not surprising that the IETF does not use the Internet. The ICANN leaders and the ICANN Board of Directors also do not use it. Their focus is also on face-to-face meetings. In their case, it can be better understood because lawyers run their show. Lawyers do not like to use the Internet for meetings because people can hold them to what they have said. They have been trained to deal in the face-to-face world of the courtrooms, where they can say almost anything and their goal is to convince a judge to rule in their favor. Many of their lawyer tricks do not work on the Internet. The Internet distills the world into truth. In my opinion, the sooner the world moves more to the Internet, the sooner they will discover the truth about what is really going on. There are many people who want to censor the truth. It is a shame the IETF has apparently been infiltrated by those people. Fortunately, in a couple of days, the world will be able to move on, deeper into cyberspace where the air is more pure and where people respect the value of the truth. Jim Fleming http://www.DOT-BIZ.com http://www.in-addr.info 3:219 INFO
