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

[Dave Burstein]

Andrew

Thanks for the extensive answers. Helpful

On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 10:25 AM vinton cerf via Chapter-delegates <
chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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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