[governance] Clinton Admits: "Free" Trade is Harmful to 3rd

[Milton L Mueller]

McTim
This is sleazy. I am not "under contract to ITU." I wrote a research report for them on ip address markets during a 3 month period. The contract ended a year ago. The report obviously told them something they did not want to hear. 

You can't have it both ways - if Mueller is ITU's tool why is he not advocating nationalized internet ip registries? Which is what they obviously want? Why isn't the ITU promoting a TABL strucure implemented by the RIRs, which is what the report I did proposed? 

While we're at it, Roland, are you still under contract to RIPE? Curran, are you still a paid flunky of ARIN? With the implication that you will say and do anything that serves those organization's interests? McTim, let's hear about your consulting contracts and paid speaking gigs with various I* organizations. You get the picture. This is where you're taking the discussion. 

You've really fallen down several notches in my estimation. Total dishonesty and an attempt to use smear tactics. 

For the rest of the list, this is an object lesson in the cult mentality that pervades the so-called Itnernet technical community. If you disagree with them about anything, theny won't even consider funding your research on an IG topic. And if you accept funding from anyone else, you MUST be a paid agent of sinister forces. Catch-22. And oh, it doesn't matter what you say or prove in the reports, they don't read. All that matters is who commissioned it. 

--MM
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From: McTim [dogwallah at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 9:38 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: Re: [governance] Clinton Admits: "Free" Trade is Harmful to 3rd

Milton,

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
<snip>
> To add icing to the cake, ARIN's Curran agrees with a protectionist trade policy - which would be disastrous if taken very far - because it suits his very short term and narrow agenda of justifying ARIN's centralized control of internet resources.


Sorry to puncture your gas bag yet again, but to be precise, ARIN does
NOT have "centralized control of Internet resources".  Arin does
distribution of Internet number resources in Canada, many Caribbean
and North Atlantic islands, and the United States.  IANA is the root
of Internet resources.

If you truly wanted competition in Internet resources, and the
abolition of centralised registries, then you'd have to argue that the
IANA should have competition in doling out IP addresses at the root
level.

There are natural monopolies in this world, you just have to accept that fact.

BTW, methinks that you might want to (in the interest of full
disclosure) let us know if you are still under contract with the ITU
in re: IP address distribution issues.

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Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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