[ga-full] RE: [ga] About GA membership again......

["Roeland M. J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

> From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of William
> X. Walsh
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 10:27 PM
>
> On 29-Mar-2000 Roeland M. J. Meyer wrote:
> > William, you want proof from an eye witness? Are you saying
> that Chris is
> > either lieing or doesn't remember? What level of proof do you want?
> >
> > I remember the same things as Chris and Simon, from a
> different perspctive.
> > I know for fact that NSF handed the whole mess over to
> IANA, just like Chris
> > said. Although, the only one that might still have written
> proof is Simon.
>
> Where are the documents, Roeland?   I'll settle for
> references to real official
> documents.  That's really not too much to ask, is it?

Actually, it is. The NSF was woefully informal. Scientists are above petty
bureaucracy and highly intolerant of it, remember? The NSF's ineptness is
[one of] the reasons that the Internet was taken away from them. Do you
remember that bit about the infrastructure development surcharge, that NSF
directed NSI to take? That wasn't documented real well either. The NSF was
real bad about not leaving audit-trail. Geez, they even did a lot of pure
verbal stuff.<sigh> Most of the evidence that I have was indirect, mainly
folks bitching about it after the fact.

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