Re: Fw: IANA Proposal to NTIA

[John Curran <jcurran at bbnplanet.com>]

Hello Jim,
 
  Folks interesting in the IANA topic have had a year or two
  to make it onto that mailing list; you've apparently still
  got that cross-posting problem with your email client since
  your commentary seems to have crept onto the ietf discussion
  list (again).

/John

At 07:57 PM 10/02/1998 -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:
>Fred,
>
>The IETF may want to follow along with the recent developments.
>
>With the recent events, people may want to consider
>the American Indian Model to better understand what
>is going on. Imagine that ALL active users of the
>Internet are like American Indians. We now see that
>well meaning people are going to enter the scene to
>care for the netizens and make sure they are herded
>into reservations. I do not think that netizens (Indians)
>can expect that any of the people called upon to oversee
>these reservations will be drawn from the Indian
>population. These people obviously think that we are
>too stupid to manage ourselves and the world we live in.
>I bet that most of them have never been on a "reservation"
>or slept in a teepee. It will be interesting to see them
>display their arrogance to tell everyone how to manage
>the Internet. Why not sit back and enjoy the show ?
>
>
>Jim Fleming
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority <iana at ISI.EDU>
>To: iana-announce at ISI.EDU <iana-announce at ISI.EDU>
>Cc: iana at ISI.EDU <iana at ISI.EDU>
>Date: Friday, October 02, 1998 7:48 PM
>Subject: IANA Proposal to NTIA
>
>
>>
>>Hi.
>>
>>IANA submitted the following proposal to NTIA today.  The supporting
>>documents can be found on the IANA web site.
>>
>>___________________________________________________________________________
>>...