[9453] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Aikens last (but long) posting/comments on ISOC and related issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald E. Eastlake 3rd (Beast))
Thu Jan 6 09:33:13 1994
To: Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com>
Cc: Craig.A.Finseth-1@umn.edu, ietf@ietf.cnri.reston.va.us, com-priv@psi.com,
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jan 94 09:19:19 PST."
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 94 09:29:54 -0500
From: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd (Beast)" <dee@skidrow.lkg.dec.com>
>From: Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com>
To: Craig.A.Finseth-1@umn.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 05 Jan 94 08:07:35 -0600.
<199401051407.AA13402@norge.unet.umn.edu>
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> 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
>
>On this note, I'd discourage ISOC from launching a bunch of new technical
>networking journals. I've seen the circulation figures for a lot of the
I certainly agree. Hard copy journals seem particularly silly for
internetworking.
>...
>Craig
>[and so you know all the conflicts of interest in this note :-)]
>Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Network Magazine
>member of steering committee of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
>member editorial board of the Journal of High Speed Networks
>past Editor-in-Chief, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
I suggest that authors consider simply submitting their papers as
Internet Drafts and, depending on the comments they receive, issuing
them as informational RFCs.
Donald
