[5372] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: IP: Clinton comes after the Internet by Joseph Farah
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Geer)
Tue Aug 10 12:26:35 1999
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Aug 1999 20:09:28 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:44:42 -0400
From: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
A working group like this with only two years to go in
an administration worrying about its place in history
must be one of two things, only:
1. we are referring this to committee so that we can say
we did something without having actually to do anything
(what is sometimes rendered in Italian as a "bella figura")
2. we already have our draft conclusions in white paper
form and we need to have the appearance of due process
A betting pool might be in order, but I narrowly favor #2
--dan
