Very Interesting Ari;-)... See my comments below;-)...
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At 10:47 AM -0700 8/3/02, Ari Ollikainen wrote:
Hello Dave Crocker;-)...
Again, your message describes precisely what you did to me
personally over a several year period of stalking beginning with
your work with IAHC and continuing into the establishment of ICANN.
I finally choked it off by simply never responding directly to
anything you say or do. But, here I find that you are right on the
money;-)...
I had been seeking a properly correct description of what you were
doing, and using my theory that one's enemy often attributes to
you, what he is doing himself, I now have a perfect description of
the tools and the technique of your trade.
Dave - I cannot thank you enough for explaining how you do it all so well.
I think I will print it up and frame it on my office wall.
And now back into my mode of not responding directly;-)...\s
Cheers;-)...\Stef
That's interesting...when Dave described what he characterized
as Karl's method, I recognized it instantly as EXACTLY what
Dave did to me several times in the past 30 years!!
The last time he did that was at several of the BOFs Jack Drescher
and I tried to start up a "IP based Remote Conferencing working
group" sometime in 1992/1993. Dave's singleminded negativism about
the subject stymied our progress to the point that we gave up
the idea of a group which could spin off other working groups
devoted to specific parts of the problem...
I only emulate polite social conversation whenever put into
a position to have to exchange words with him. Otherwise I ignore
him and his mostly bombastic pronouncements.
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I make no claims to being the sole beneficiary of Dave's lavish
attention, but he certainly stalked me constantly for several years,
even after I stopped responding directly to his attacks. I have it
all recorded in some obscure archives.
At one point, we allowed him to participate in ORSC discussions,
where we had set up some very reasonable rules for maintaining civil
discourse, but Dave, in keeping with his methodology, used our rules
against ourselves in the most cunning ways.
We finally had to throw him out. One way to control his presence was
to move our lists out of ICANN range, and work in ORSC territory.
There are some real values to being out of reach from the ICANN
roots;-)... I see no rules or protocol problems that would prevent
groups from setting up private roots for private communication
purposes. Well, there is one problem. Every mail relay server needs
to be able to resolve the domain name of the final destination, and
recent spam defenses also require that the senders domain name also
resolves from its choice of root service.
I expect that there are many people out there who have suffered as we
have, but I see no reason to flush them out, now that we have Dave's
own words to explain the whole situation.
Thanks again Dave;-)... This is even better than a forced apology...
My entire approach has been to sit quietly and wait for an
overstepping of the boundaries, trusting that some day the situation
would go beyond the tipping point. Sure enough he did it, but it was
a long wait. BTW I did not even use any bait.
By the way, ICANN is on the same track, racing to the cliff trying to
beat everyone else to go over first;-)... My advice is to just
Let'em Go!
Cheers...\\Stef