Re: [GLOBAL-V6]IPv6 Policy Proposal for LACNIC Region

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Brian and all,

  Your fantasies are your own affair of course.  And it again seems
that you desire to share them here.  None the less they are fantasies.
Again see:
 http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/proposals/ineginc/ineginc.htm

Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> Pim,
>
> It really isn't worth arguing with the imaginary "Jeff Williams".
> The person playing "Jeff Williams" on the Internet has been
> repeating this misinformation about the US having paid for
> IPv6 development for years. It is indeed pretty annoying for the
> majority of us among the IPv6 designers funded either by private industry
> or by other countries, but "Jeff Williams" never allows "himself"
> to be confused by facts.
>
> We should all resolve to simply ignore mail from "Jeff Williams."
> There are filtering mechanisms in most mail agents that make this
> rather easy.
>
>    Brian
>
> Pim van Pelt wrote:
> >
> > Jeff,
> >
> > |   IPv6 was developed with public funds paid predominantly by
> > | US tax payers.  Hence IPv6 is a PUBLIC resource.  As such
> > | membership for any and all stakeholders is or must be assumed
> > | and unencumbered.
> >
> > IPv6 was developped by the IETF and IAB, which may have been paid by US
> > tax payers (to some extent), but development did not stop at paperwork.
> >
> > Software engineers, router vendors, network architects and engineers,
> > and even endusers all put their fair share of energy in its continued
> > development. I am sure that IETF members' attendance is not paid by the
> > US government but by their respective employers.
> >
> > Saying IPv6 was developped predominantly using US tax payers' money is
> > shortsighted at best, and generally speaking entirely wrong.
> >
> > --
> > ---------- - -    - - -+- - -    - - ----------
> > Pim van Pelt                 Email: pim@ipng.nl
> > http://www.ipng.nl/             IPv6 Deployment
> > -----------------------------------------------
>
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Regards,

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