last time i looked Jon postel was still on genuity's board. It is my understanding that this gives him a LEGAL responsibility to act in the best financial interests of genuity. Seems to me this creates a conflict of interest given what with his powers as IANA he could do to benefit genuity with IP allocations etc. now I am confident that he has not used his position to give special benefit to genuity. but I am also told that he could be regarded as culpable for not having helped them out when it could be argued he had the power to do so. This is a distinction that I was slow to grasp and one that jon with a research rather than a business background might also be slow to grasp. Rodney Joffe explained to me in very glowing terms this summer why jon was on the 'board" his explanation sounded fine. Point is Jon could have had the same impact as a special advisor to the board. one wonders why genuity bechtel attornies that could be expected to be aware of these issues went with the board choice anyway. does jons board position disappear when genuity is fully acquired? i would hope so. ************************************************************************ The COOK Report on Internet For subsc. pricing & more than 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA ten megabytes of free material (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) visit http://cookreport.com/ Internet: cook@cookreport.com New Special Report: Internet Governance at the Crossroads ($175) http://cookreport.com/inetgov.shtml ************************************************************************ On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Henry Linneweh wrote:
Hmmm if my memory serves me right I believe MicroSoft has 3 of its directors on UUnets board, and that very well could be the end run on the network. The thought is not comforting....
Henry R. Linneweh
Josh Richards wrote:
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 mec@ummagumma.ops.usa.net wrote:
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Chris Cook, Net Asset LLC wrote:
And when that happens, Microsoft will buy Worldcomm. And then Microsoft will require AOL to use MSN's interface bundled with Worldcomm's connectivity or get no connectivity at all.
Shhhh. Don't give the Evil Empire any ideas....
perhaps I've been smoking too much crack, but back when MSN was getting started, Microsoft dumped a large amount of money in UUNET's lap. How much of this ended up going towards UUNET stock? And if they owned a chunk then, they'd own a chunk of Worldcomm now. But then, I may just be smoking too much crack.
Yep..
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