amplification to post from fossoy

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

> Posted-Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 09:34:55 -0500
> From: cook () path net (Gordon Cook)
> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 06:34:45 PST
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> To: farber () central cis upenn edu
> Subject:  amplification to post from fossoy
>
> I received this from Fossy earlier today and asked him to correct his
> characterization of my meeting with NTT.  About 98% of it dealt with
> the politics and policy of US internet commercialization.  It would have been
> highly presumptuous of me to lecture NTT about their domestic internet scene.
> I
> think the emphasis Fossy understood may have been shaped by Dave Hughes own
> definition of what he saw as my mission.  Hughes does spend time in Japanese
> cyberspace on almost a daily basis.
>
> Thanks to some balls that Dave Hughes started rolling I have had in the last 2
> weeks a LOT of private exchanges with folk on all sides of this issue in Japan.
> It seems clear that they will be faced in the near term with *significant*
> problems in extending commercial internet servcice to Japanese business large
> and small.  If they don't solve these problems *quickly* it could have
> significant implications for their economic competitiveness.  But they
> certainly
> didn't need *ME* to tell them that.  What they did get from me was data on how
> we are doing things here that they will use in their planning back home.
> I'd appreciate it if you'd share this correction with your list.