Re: [discuss] Individual representation

[Gordon Cook <cook@cookreport.com>]

Cool..... compared to Randy Dave Crocker sounds like a real gentleman....
Keep up the good work Randy...




>>>> Agreed.  It means the academic employees -- the academics (NOT the
>>>> "academic institutions") -- are disenfranchised. Which was my point and
>>>> Ellen's, and which neither of us seems to be able to put in terms you will
>>>> grok.
>>> i understand it.  but it is quite irrelevant.  the same applies to the isp
>>> employees, the commercial institution employees, ...
>> The interests of a university as an institution or the university as a
>> .edu name owner are wholly distinct from the interests of the academics
>> who are employees of the university. Why allow an administrator who cares
>> about .edu domain policy to participate, while leaving behind the
>> trademark experts from the law school, theoriticians from the school of
>> government, and the protocol experts from the engineering school, to but
>> a few obvious examples.
>> The point you're advocating is akin to taking the library and the
>> bookshelves, but leaving the books behind.
>
>we all think we're sooooo special and different.
>
>randy

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