[9513] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Constitution of NII AC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (The future Ross Stapleton-Gray)
Fri Jan 7 09:46:21 1994
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 7:45:52 -0700 (MST)
From: The future Ross Stapleton-Gray <STAPLETON@bpa.arizona.edu>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Cc: STAPLETON@bpa.arizona.edu
To clarify some of my comments, and to agree (or not) with some of
responses thus far.
The NII Advisory Committee members need not be known by E-mail to
all of us to do a good job. As we've seldom been given phone numbers
for advisory committee members on past efforts, should we take umbrage
at not being handed their E-mail addresses today? I agree that it
will be important for all of them to have some understanding (perhaps
a deep understanding) of the Internet; I would also recommend to each
and every one of them who hasn't got an account that they get one
soonest, and play around at the very least, with an eye toward
understanding just why this thing is growing so big, and so essential.
To note in passing, the NII won't just be the Internet writ large...
it's to embrace all of the communications and computational means,
practices and policies. I wouldn't insist that all of the AC
members get a cellular phone, a pager, cable and use an ATM
frequently, but all of those other technologies will roll into
the equation.
I can't comment on whether the right people are on the Advisory
Committee; that's not my call to make as a government employee and
task force member. But they're not all CEOs, and several of the
ones I know are more than qualified to argue persuasively as to why
the Internet is important to life as we *will* know it (apologies
to AT&T's marketing department! :-)
Erratum: I had previously stated that Bob Kahn was a VP of the
Internet Society; he is not, but is one of its trustees.
Like the rest of you, I hope that the Advisory Committee exceeds
expectations, and accepts, digests and well-represents the views of
we, the people, as that's what they're there for after all.
Ross
