Ira Magaziner's Assurance Given the internet community this M
Pete Farmer
>A hint, Gordon: now that you aren't a journalist any more
And now I come to Gordon's defense.
Gordon said that he called Magaziner's "stating [his] concerns's..."
OK, I'll grant that sounds like advocacy, and not 'pure' reporting.
But Gordon goes on to report **facts** on what Magaziner said. This IS
journalism, and I applaud Gordon for bringing light to the situation.
Your post, Perry, brings only heat.
Pete
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Gordon Cook
Let me say once more what I have said before. I have a seven year history
where I have never hesitated to be an advocate for something when I feel
that advocacy is justified. Most recently it was advocacy for the
foundation of ARIN when some government were trying their best 16 months
ago to prevent it from being formed. It would be interesting, wouldn't it,
if NSI were also the source for IP numbers for the Americas?
I will damned well work as an advocate in this instance to see that the
same ISOC/Heath/Shaw clique who gave us the MOUvement does not go on to
dictate the composition of the new IANA, its names council and its Board.
Perry of course was a member of IHAC that gave us the Core, the POC and
MOUvement. I would also remind Perry that when IHAC was being roundly
condemned in early 1997 I was not among its detractors and remained neutral
until last September. I jumped on Ira Magaziner hard in my May 97 issue
when he allowed the formation of ARIN to be blocked. But in June when he
changed course I gave him full credit. I convinced Ira to keynote the IIR
Re-engineering the Internet Conference in London on january 27th of this
year. I interviewed him in March and again last month. If you look at the
index of past issues on my web site, you will see that my interviews run an
extensive gamut of the key technical people in the Internet.
People subscribe for these interviews. the internet governance stuff is
probono and revenue neutral for me. I started covering it because I found
myself almost inadvertantly having very good sources. i am one opinionated
SOB and proud of it. i try to keep an open mind and find myself friendly
today with a few folk who a few years ago were likely cursing my existence.
one long time detractor was heard to admit 18 months ago that i had become
'clueful' and to say that he didn't know anyone who tried any harder than I
'to get it right'. Presently this person I suspect is plenty pissed with
me.... hey. What can i say? i call them as I see them. having no
advertising and low overhead I can do that and prosper. 80% of my income
is from my newsletter. i am not aware of anyone else who has been able to
make a successful go of internet technology publishing with no employees
and no outside backing for more than five years. i find what i am doing
tremendously satisfying and intend to keep on doing it for a long time to
come.
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Pete Farmer
Again, my thanks for getting Magaziner to speak on the issue and for
reporting what he said.
Our rhetorical styles differ, but I don't claim that mine is always the
most effective. I welcome your advocacy. You have an uncontested right
to be an advocate, and I think that your work has contributed to many
positive outcomes.
I have drawn swords with you on more than one occasion, typically for
the following:
1) Instances where I thought you had sensationalized or personalized a
story.
2) Cases where I thought you were presenting advocacy/analysis as
straight reporting.
You were absolutely, positively guilty of NEITHER of these in your post
regarding Magaziner's assurances. I found Perry's jab to be Out Of
Line.
The world needs opinionated SOBs, so hang in there, and from time to
time you can expect that I'll probably scream back at you. :-)
Jim Fleming
-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Cook <co...@cookreport.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <com-...@lists.psi.com>
Date: Friday, August 28, 1998 4:50 PM
Subject: RE: Ira Magaziner's Assurance Given the internet community this M
>A note about the "perils' of advocacy.
>
>
>Let me say once more what I have said before. I have a seven year history
>where I have never hesitated to be an advocate for something when I feel
>that advocacy is justified. Most recently it was advocacy for the
>foundation of ARIN when some government were trying their best 16 months
>ago to prevent it from being formed. It would be interesting, wouldn't it,
>if NSI were also the source for IP numbers for the Americas?
>
Since NSI currently controls the "a" legacy root
name server and since it determines where many
people obtain their references to IN-ADDR.ARPA
zones, they do currently control the essential
resource for the entire IPv4 address space. Since
ARIN makes the changes to the delegations there
and has apparently obtained a copy of the whois
database from the InterNIC, ARIN also plays a
significant role. The other legacy Root Name Server
owner/operators play less of a role and all of the
other RSCs around the world play even less of
a role...and so on and so on....
Getting back to one of the main topics at hand,
the "new" IANA. It should be clear that Jon Postel
plays a role in ARIN because he is on that Board.
As for the role of the IANA Inc. company Jon plans
to form, in my opnion it plays less of a role than
people probably expect at this stage of the game.
This is good. It takes much of the pressure off
of the formation of the IANA Inc. For some reason
some people do not seem to be able to respond
quickly to these changes. They seem to be trying
to organize meetings that they decided 6 months
ago are needed. That is no longer the case.
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com