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.
>
>