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What would you tell the White House?

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Sun Feb 13 19:21:44 2000 
On Sun, 13 February 2000, Randy Bush wrote:
> politicans think engineers will try to apply a clueless and inappropriate
> technical solution to non-technical problems.  and they're right.

True.  Nevertheless the White House is having a meeting on Tuesday about
last weeks Internet incidents.  Several people from this list, and
other Internet CEO's have been invited.  But not everyone will have a
chance to say something.

If you had the opportunity, what would you tell the politicans?  Try to
avoid technical jargon.  Imagine someone from the Old Executive Office
Building is reading this list and will need to summarize the suggestions.

If you say "do nothing," please try to justify your position with something
more than the government is clueless.  For example, how effective was the
private sector response.