From: Jonathan Zamick <JonathanZ@consensus.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 01:52:33 +0800
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Subject: Re: The future will be easy to use
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At 10:56 PM 11/26/95, James A. Donald wrote:
>At 01:12 PM 11/27/95 -0800, Jonathan Zamick wrote:
>> it
>> means forming a group, made up of Cypherpunk members perhaps, but much
>> smaller, and capable of working together. Also capable of handling not only
>> the theory, but good solid code, GUI, PR, meetings, talking to the
>> government, etc.
>
>Skip the talking to the government bit:  Ignore, do not confront.

I can't agree. The model of a successful enterprise includes feedback from
different levels of participants. Regardless, the government will be taking
a role in encryption. Thus even if they aren't a defining part of the
development, bringing them to a limited extent into the loop, and finding
even small areas which the government would support, helps provide better
buy-in by the government officials who participate, helping the momentum.

The point isn't to bring them into the design, but simply to use their
feedback to optimize our PR approach.

Jonathan

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