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Wishing the best for all ships at sea
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Evan Peters)
Fri Apr 17 08:58:16 1992
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 07:54:58 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
From: Paul Evan Peters <paul%cni.org@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.MIT.EDU>
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Ed Vielmetti remarked on Wed, 15 Apr 1992 12:44:03
> I guess it's kind of nice to hear that CNI is starting to think about
> maybe perhaps doing something with X.500 some day. It's also nice to
> know that someone is off writing "vision statements", making the rounds
> of the lecture circuit, having many fine lunches and dinners. But
> there are a lot of real questions that can be answered today with the tools
> we have right at hand, and for all of the talk about "vision" and
> "architecture" it'd also be nice to see some services and some code appear
> too.
I share Mr. Vielmetti's belief that "... there are a lot of real questions
that can be answered today with the tools we have right at hand ..." and I
agree with his observation that "... it'd ... be nice to see some services and
some code appear too." The Coalition has a strategy for acting on this
shared belief and for measuring up to this agreement. I sense that Mr.
Vielmetti has reservations about that strategy, reservations that may or
may not be relieved by additional information about what that strategy is
and the accomplishments that it has achieved. Regardless, I believe
that the challenge of realizing the promise of the network medium for
advancing scholarship and intellectual productivity is so large that a
wide range of different strategies undertaken by diverse groups of in-
terested parties and stakeholders is necessary. I further believe
that it is important to show respect for and to offer support to each
strategy that seeks to faciliate the evolution of a network environment that
is a livable -- indeed, a "nourishing" -- space for its inhabitants and
visitors.
Cybernautically yours,
Paul Evan Peters
Director, Coalition for Networked Information
