[9430] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Aikens last (but long) posting/comments on ISOC and related issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Finseth)
Wed Jan 5 09:08:25 1994
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 08:07:35 -0600
From: "Craig A. Finseth" <fin@unet.umn.edu>
To: fidelman@civicnet.org
Cc: peterd@bunyip.com, AIKEN@ccc.nersc.gov, braden@isi.edu,
In-Reply-To: Miles R Fidelman's message of Tue, 4 Jan 1994 14:04:01 -0500 (EST) <Pine.3.87.9401041401.A11220-0100000@world.std.com>
Reply-To: Craig.A.Finseth-1@umn.edu
> Personally, I think it more useful to ask "what do we need
> from the Internet Society" and work from this list
> forward, rather than say "this is the list of things
> professional societies do" and work backwards from that.
...
I agree. Here is a list of things that I would rather see the
Internet Society _not_ get involved in:
* group health plans
* "insignia" credit cards
* local chapters
* and, in general, anything else that tends to fill up my US mail mailbox
These are all reasons why I dropped out of the IEEE: I couldn't keep
up with throwing away all that junk mail with "IEEE" in the upper left
corner.... (Since then my city accepts this stuff for recycling, but
that is small consolation.)
Craig
