From: Bob Allisat <tor@wtv.net>
At 1:05 PM -0800 11/25/97, George Herbert wrote:
"Everyone" didn't profit from this stunt; most of us lost something. Either directly in InterNIC and some net users cases, and those of us who had to run around un-doing the vulnerability, or indirectly in that his stunt redirected quite a bit of legitimate debate into flame wars over a dumb publicity stunt instead.
We gained the first direct action to protest the domination of the namespace. More will follow this time directed at the CORE conspiracy as well as others. *Unless* there are overt moves to negotiation, consensus and settlement. All of which must satisfy all parties not just a handful. There will be more protests and we must all support those who engage in these activities on our behalf until justice is served.
It is exactly this type of confrontational, paranoia-inducing approach to the problem that has caused most of the problems with working towards real netwide consensus. It's not suprising you can't see it, but it's blindingly clear to me... I put work into some back channel discussions that you bozos managed to kill dead. You are not productive of solutions, you are counterproductive, actively damaging to progress. The "protest" created an environment where compromise became harder and in fact did not happen. We all lost. The only winners were a few people's egos, and one of those people is now going to go to jail for it. Trading ego boosts for real progress on the issues is not my idea of problem solving, and until you stop making that mistake you are a roadblock. -george william herbert gherbert@crl.com