"...I'd like to think that I made a difference..."

[Jim Fleming <JimFleming@ameritech.net>]

From: <mstjohns@mindspring.com>
"...I'd like to think that I made a difference..."

Do you think these allocations are fair ?
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space

What was your role with the U.S. Government and funding Jon Postel ?

Do you think that U.S. Government employees and/or funders, should manipulate
the resources allocated to private people and companies ?...so that the "right people"
benefit, and all others are economically isolated and destroyed ?

Is the Internet for everyone, or just the I* society insiders....?

Jim Fleming
2002:[IPv4]:000X:03DB:...IPv8 is closer than you think...
http://www.ican.org/what's_new!!!.htm
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <mstjohns@mindspring.com>
To: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk@cisco.com>
Cc: "Eliot Lear" <lear@cisco.com>; <ietf@ietf.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: am i the only one...


> With apoligies to Don Eastlake - this is actually NOT a topic for the new
> nomcom procedures group as it deals with current procedures and lack of
> volunteers.
> 
> Stephen - as far as I know the "strict" requirements are that you have
> attended two of the last three meetings and are not currently either an IESG
> or IAB member.  Given that somewhere on the order of 2000 people attend each
> meeting I would be  surprised if there were less than 1200 eligible.  In fact,
> just looking at the attendence lists for Minn and Salt Lake reveals over a 120
> eligibles in the first 3% of the combined list (I took the lists, deleted
> everything but the email addresses, concatenated them and sorted then looked
> for duplicate addresses).  
> 
> I served on one nomcom, chaired one and advised one - I'd like to think that I
> made a difference.  I want to echo Eliot 59 volunteers IS puny  If you want to
> have an effect on the IETF, volunteer to help choose the IAB and IETF.  As it
> stands right now, you've only got a one in six chance of actually having to do
> anything and isn't that a reasonable risk to be able to say "stop bothering me
> - I volunteered already"?
> 
> With respect to the person who was complaining about US centric
> teleconferences - two of the three noncoms I was on had a member from
> Australia.  We arranged the telecons to try and avoid having anyone have to be
> awake at 2am local time...
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:53:43 -0500 Stephen Sprunk <ssprunk@cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> Thus spake "Eliot Lear" <lear@cisco.com>
> > ... who thinks that 59 volunteers for NONCOM is pretty puny?  If you're
> > truly not interested in the future of the IETF I suppose you oughtn't
> > send your name in.  Otherwise, why aren't you volunteering?
> 
> 59 out of how many elligible?  The criteria to volunteer are pretty strict,
> not
> to mention the stuff selectees actually have to *do*.
> 
> S
> 
> 
> 
>