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I agree with you, Bertrand. <br>
Please, keep in mind that in December 1997, President Clinton presented
the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his partner, Robert E.
Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named
the recipients of the ACM Alan M. Turing award in 2004 for their work on
the Internet protocols. The Turing award is sometimes called the
"Nobel Prize of Computer Science." <br><br>
So, basically, I don't see political context here. I see rather a
recognition what he and Bob Kahn did, but also a number of people
contributed to. It's also a sign that the Internet is helping not only
the participants at the WSIS, but many more to have access to
information, freedom of speech, etc., etc. <br><br>
We must stop taking care of what's happening somewhere in the world, and
put into its context everything that happens. Today, we may say, it's
because of WSIS. Tomorrow it will be because of post-WSIS. Yesterday, it
would have been because of the PrepCom. What was the reason for the 2004
ACM award? Or for the 1997 Medal?<br><br>
The WSIS is not the most important event in the world, so that we should
not believe all things relate to it.<br><br>
best,<br>
veni<br><br>
At 18:36 09-11-05 +0100, Bertrand de La Chapelle wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Dear all,<br>
<br>
Please let's not start a new thread that can gon on for a long time and
will only distract everyone at a critical moment :-)<br>
<br>
Just two points :<br>
1) such an award is highly deserved and long overdue<br>
2) one cannot fail to notice the particular timing of this honor<br>
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I would have personnally preferred - in rdue espect for the value of what
those two people created - that it were given to them earlier and not in
a context that brings unnecessary political overtones to it. But it is
not their fault. (sorry for my english that probably does not reflect all
the nuances I would like to put here, but you probably all see my point).
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Best<br>
<br>
Bertrand <br><br>
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On 11/9/05, <b>Veni Markovski</b>
<<a href="mailto:veni@veni.com">veni@veni.com</a>> wrote: <br>
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<dd>At 11:14 09-11-05 -0500, Joe Baptista wrote:<br>
<dd>>What is especially interesting is Cerf and Kahn getting
this. But <br>
<dd>>claiming "Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn been at the forefront
of a digital<br>
<dd>>revolution that has transformed global commerce, communication,
and<br>
<dd>>entertainment" is a bit off.<br><br>
<dd>What is not a "bit off" but a lot off the normal behaviour
here is <br>
<dd>actually the thing you wrote about Vint and Bob.<br>
<dd>After all, if it wasn't for them, you would have not been able
to<br>
<dd>write such accusations.<br><br>
<dd>I wouldn't go into agrument about your ICANN-related statement, but
<br>
<dd>one observation, as someone from a developing country: as long
as<br>
<dd>there are such statements, no wonder the US government will
continue<br>
<dd>to say, "better keep ICANN under our supervision".<br><br>
<dd>veni<br><br>
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