RE: [ga] Since nobody in authority wants to announce it...

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

Your a little off Michael. The backbone was sold off to Cable and Wireless
some time ago, as a condition of the MCI/WorldCom merger. I made a few
shekels from that merger (MCI employee stock options). Other than that,
you're not too far off.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Michael
> Sondow
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 1:31 PM
> To: J. William Semich
> Cc: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [ga] Since nobody in authority wants to announce it...
>
>
> J. William Semich wrote:
> >
> > There are plenty of qualified BoD members in LAC, Asia and
> Africa. They
> > just do not happen to be on the BoD - despite language in
> the Bylaws which
> > attempts to remedy that. Their presence on the Board would,
> in fact, change
> > significantly the BoD's attitude and approach to its decisions, IMO.
>
> Yes, but they would not be in agreement that MCI should monopolize
> the backbone, that governments should control registries, that
> non-commercial and small business users should be denied SLDs, or
> that ISOC and CORE should profit undeservedly from ICANN's policies.
>
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