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

[Bertrand de La Chapelle]

Dear all,
 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 :-)
 Just two points :
1) such an award is highly deserved and long overdue
2) one cannot fail to notice the particular timing of this honor
 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).
 Best
 Bertrand

 On 11/9/05, Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:
>
> At 11:14 09-11-05 -0500, Joe Baptista wrote:
> >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.
>
> What is not a "bit off" but a lot off the normal behaviour here is
> actually the thing you wrote about Vint and Bob.
> After all, if it wasn't for them, you would have not been able to
> write such accusations.
>
> I wouldn't go into agrument about your ICANN-related statement, but
> one observation, as someone from a developing country: as long as
> there are such statements, no wonder the US government will continue
> to say, "better keep ICANN under our supervision".
>
> veni
>
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