[9606] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Shutdown of lists on May 30th at 12:01 AM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Tackett)
Thu May 29 11:01:15 1997
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 09:49:08 -0500 (CDT)
From: Brian Tackett <cym@acrux.net>
To: Vince Wolodkin <wolodkin@digitalink.com>
cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <338D8E47.62383730@digitalink.com>
On Thu, 29 May 1997, Vince Wolodkin wrote:
> It's time you faced it, though you and others may have put a great deal
> of work into building what the internet has become, so have many
> others. It doesn't mean that it belongs to you. It doesn't mean that
> people who are trying to build something now are pirates.
No. It means that people who try to take a public resource and make it a
private cash cow ARE pirates. I challenge you to show one email, any email
(or any other verifiable piece of info) anywhere in which Paul has claimed
to own the net.
> even be a little bit afraid that some of them might succeed. But why is
> their input LESS valuable than yours, and who are you to make this
> judgement?
He isn't. The Internet community is, and that community probably values
Paul's input because of his track record and his demonstrable talent and
insight into issues :)
> Take a good look in the mirror and decide, do you want to work with
> others or do you want to dictate to others? Then please let us know, we
> may need to ignore you in the future.
Ignore whomever you choose to ignore. I think you'll find that Paul (and
others, certainly) are concerned with working inside a framework which is
most beneficial to the Internet community at large. DNS pirates like
the eDNS/uDNS/AlterNIC crowd are not, thay're interested in producing a
perception of power and a stream of revenue for themselves.
