[8800] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: III vs. GII
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Allis (206) 865-3583)
Sun Dec 5 11:22:36 1993
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 08:21:51 PST
From: Ray Allis (206) 865-3583 <ray@espresso.rt.cs.boeing.com>
To: STAPLETON@bpa.arizona.edu, farber@central.cis.upenn.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
> From: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber)
>
> >Ross
>
> Great minds ... I have been espousing the need for internationalization as
> the only sane route for the NII for also many moons.
>
>
> I like the term GII and will switch to it (with proper credit for the term)
> but remember the NII has as one of its drives competativeness and most folk
> relate that to esclusivity -- they are wrong. Those who know how to use the
> GII (there I said it) in the INTERNATIONAL sense will be the winners.
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> From: The future Ross Stapleton-Gray <STAPLETON@bpa.arizona.edu>
>
> Please don't credit "GII" to me (unless, as it turns out, I'm the only
> one to have so used it...I can't imagine that though), but let's use it
> with reckless abandon! ;-)
>
> Ross
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Regardless of who gets credit, "let's use it with reckless abandon! ;-)"
Thank you for saying it! We're ALL in this global community together!
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Ray Allis - Boeing Computer Services
ray@atc.boeing.com