[governance] Cerf and Kahn receive the US highest civil award

[George Sadowsky]

This post really troubles me.

First you characterize incorrectly Vint Cerf's role in ICANN and his 
contribution to it.  then you use your personal view of ICANN to 
denigrate the contribution of two people, over 35 years, toward 
development of today's Internet.  I'm amazed at the lack of 
perspective exhibited.

If you want to take pot shots at people for your own amusement, 
that's fine.  Just don't clutter up a list where people are trying to 
do serious, difficult and important work.

George Sadowsky

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At 11:14 AM -0500 11/9/05, Joe Baptista wrote:
>On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>
>>  http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051103-5.html
>>
>>  BTW - it's also nice to see (very end of the list) that humanitarian
>>  people get the recognition they deserve, but only after Hollywood makes
>>  a movie about them :-)
>
>What is especially interesting is Cerf and Kahn getting this.  But
>claiming "Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn been at the forefront of a digital
>revolution that has transformed global commerce, communication, and
>entertainment" is a bit off.
>
>Vint Cerf in his administration of ICANN - as has been the administration
>of everyone in charge of ICANN - is at best backward.  I think we are
>watching the U.S. preseident handing out party favourites to keep the
>Internet under the control of the U.S. Government.  A long term
>impossibility - but alas managable in the short term.
>
>regards
>joe baptista
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