AW: AW: [governance] Proposal to Merge Website and Mailing List Consultations [Administration/Logistics]

[Yehuda Katz]

Roland, I concur with your construction of rfc1591.

Through out the day today I had various thoughts about our disscusion here.

In closure regarding Cutural-Adaptation of .Net in respect to Japanese Culture,
One thought was of their historic encultualment by geographic placement of being an Island State, They have developed a survival skills upon adaptation through importing resources.

In the immediate case, when favorable .Com Domains became a scare resource, they simply adapted/imported/untilized .Net Domains as suitable resouce.  This differs from 'The Meaning (psychology)' of .Net in terms of Centric Social Cutural Value of the communities Network.

Second thought was in regards to the RFC's proper, I'll use a paralle to describe this.
In U.S. Constitutional studies, we have a school of thought (Judicial Interpretation) which interpets the Constitution (the RFC's if you will), through 'Strict Constructionism'. The philosophies of such is in itself an 'Interptation' of the originalism textualism [The Original Meaning (psychology)].

In contrast 'Lenient-Constructionism' lends itself to fairly construed Meaning of the text (absent the originalism textualism). 

IMO (personal), At this point in the life of the Internet I am not one to "Re-arrange the Plumbing", regarding the RFC's. 

We (IANA/IAB) have not done indepth Commentary as to how a particual RFC is to be Interpreted.
I wonder if simulare intelectual-events surrounding the creation of the Consitution (the psychological thinking of T. Jefferson, et. al.) led to the 'absence-of-definition', or the diliberate cognicent-ommision of definition, so to enable 'interpetation-of-meaning' in the future.

The other thing is that, we haven't done Studies on RFC Decisions, in-depth as we have on the decisions of the Justices of the U.s. Supream Court. Board reports are not journaled in the same mannor as Court Reporters.
Have you ever read a 'Dissenting Opinion' on an RFC?
Perhapes that will come in time.

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Today, amazingly Thomas Jefferson knew what could happen, and here we are.

*Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped.
*At 5, began studying under his cousin's tutor.
*At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.
*At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.
*At 16, entered the College of William and Mary.
*At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.
*At 23, started his own law practice.
*At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
*At 31, wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America " and retired from his law practice.
*At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
*At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence.
*At 33, took three years to revise **Virginia's* *legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.
*At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.
*At 40, served in Congress for two years.
*At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.
*At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.
*At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society.
*At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party.
*At 57, was elected the third president of the United States.
*At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation's size.
*At 61, was elected to a second term as President.
*At 65, retired to Monticello.
*At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.
*At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.
*At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams.

Quotes:

*"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we
shall become as corrupt as Europe."

*"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who
are willing to work and give to those who would not."

*"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A
principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."

*"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the
government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of
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from too much government."

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bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in
government."

*"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood
of patriots and tyrants."

*"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas
which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

*Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our
liberties than standing armies.
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of
their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and
corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of
all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their
fathers conquered."

 -- Thomas Jefferson*
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