[Chapter-delegates] Responses to questions (was Re: Fwd: Proposed agenda for ISOC CEO and ISOC UK England Leadership Team meeting - 20 Feb 2024)

[vinton cerf]

thanks for clarifying - I still believe that ISOC has a role to play in
promoting the work of the IAB and IETF quite independent of financial
support.

v


On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 9:52 AM Andrew Sullivan <sullivan at isoc.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 08:45:49AM -0500, vinton cerf wrote:
> >Andrew, ISOC support for IETF and IAB was the reason for forming ISOC, not
> >an accident!
>
> Even decades later, the ghost of philosophy training haunts my language!
> This wasn't intended to mean "accident" in the vernacular sense of
> something that  happens without anyone's intention, but instead the
> distinction between "essential" and "accidental" properties (a distinction,
> by the way, that has long fallen out of favour among philosophers).
> Anyway, the point is just that, to the extent there is an "I*" group, the
> Internet Society was never among the organizations that had direct
> operational responsibility for any of the IANA functions.  (Also, the
> so-called I* organizations have long since expanded to include all manner
> of other people who never had any IANA function either, and some of the
> participants seem not to know that * is a wildcard operator, so even the
> name is obscure now.)
>
> Best regards,
>
> A
>
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