Re: [ripe-167] Impressions brought from Moscow meeting
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 16:19:19 +0200 (EET)
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Sergey A. Mukhin wrote:
> There can be just "pro" or "contra" for given statement at given
> moment. Think speaking about "CIS" instead of "Russia" is a good
> idea.
If say in year 2000 CIS will be denounced and go to Attic,
what will you do? (HINT: continents and other geographical
entities are much more neutral in all respects :)
> There is another point -- think if we need to create something it
> would be much better if it will not be just Russian.
Better for whom? and how you define what is "better" and
what is "worse"? (Write a solid document, guys,
we'll discuss *it* than; no sense of continuing
any discussion on the topic until the new
document will be out at least as a draft).
> I cannot invent the name for it right now ( and hope there are
> people able doing that much better than me ) but IMHO it should
> _not_ have "Russian" as a part of its name.
If it is done following the initiative from Russia,
for Russians and Russian-speakers, without a
positive contribution of anyone else -- it *is* Russian,
no matter how you call it.
> And for that matter
> it makes no "political" difference if it will be established
> not in Russia at all. That is again the technical matters and
> if I got Ukrainian representatives at that meeting right, Ukraine
> either has no wish to arrange it right now or no possibility.
We don't feel the need of doing this. Russia(ns) do.
> No need for it. And no possibility for that matter. We can just try
> to convince somebody if they do not refuse flatly ( as you did ).
Ok, we are waiting for a new better and solid document.
Show it to us, and we'll (probably) start thinking
on it...
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Best regards,
Andrew Stesin
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