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From: daveb@geac.UUCP (Brown)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: .bc.ca domain park
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Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 08:00:12 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 28 08:00:12 1987
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Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown)
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In article <8709260429.AA22350@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> rayan@utegc.UUCP writes:
< Early this summer, it was suggested by a group of you
<(at Usenix) to take the discussion public on the basis of a joint position
<paper from the network reps. This happened to be rejected, partly on the
<basis that it would bring us back to square one, and wouldn't accomplish
<anything. I don't agree with the former, but I can understand the latter;
<arguing on the net (for example) has rarely accomplished anything but
<raising temperatures. It is not the best forum to make decisions in. It
<is a forum for people to vent their views, as some have done. Don't make
<the mistake of assuming those views are all there is to it, nor that the
<net is representative of (or even reaches) interested parties.
<
<I think we'll end up with something reasonably acceptable to most people;
<try not to prejudge it.

  Sorry, ryan, but the people prejudging in this case are the members
of Usenix who rejected public discussions.
  The machines on the net are privatly owned: Usenix does not
represent or claim to represent their views.  (flame on) If someone
from Usenix has changed this, my managment will probably want to know,
(flame off, smiley on) so they can start paying Usenix and not DEC
(smiley off).

   To misquote Thoreau, "I am not a mamber of any association I have
not joined".

   In any case, someone has made a decision after being misinformed.
Regrettable, but it happens.  Do try to inform the (inter)net,
however, since it is the customer for any possible domain substructure.
And I'm sorry about speaking harshly to you...

 --dave (mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa) c-b

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