[atlarge-discuss] Fw: Athentication

["Ron Sherwood" <sherwood@islands.vi>]

All @Large members:

    I am sure a number of you felt that the message forwarded to the discuss list by Jeff Williams, and which he claimed was written by Bill Burr, was couched in the same grammatically deficient terms as Jeff's own messages.

    I was concerned enough that this was a fake letter, that I emailed Bill Burr and asked him to authenticate it.

    This reply from Bill Burr is self explanatory.

Ron Sherwood


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Bill Burr 
To: Ron Sherwood 
Cc: edward.roback@nist.gov 
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: Athentication


Mr. Sherwood,

I have no idea where what you forwarded came from.  But not from me.  It's the first time I've ever seen it.  I've never signed anything "kindly" in my life.  I don't understand the context at all. 

Bill Burr 


At 08:40 AM 7/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:

  Dear Mr. Burr:
   
  I am a member of the newly organized ICANN@Large group.  We are attempting to organize a grass-roots membership of internet users according to the mandate presented to ICANN by the DoC.
   
  There is some doubt among our membership concerning the following excerpt from a message delivered by one Jeff Williams and which is attributed to you.
   
  Please will you verify (or otherwise) that you did, indeed, author this message to Jeff Williams.
   
  Many thanks in advance for taking the time to respond this request.
   
  Yours sincerely, Ron Sherwood
   
   
  ------------------copy of message------------
   
  |> All fellow members and VR committee members,
  |>
  |>   The following is a email received via the DOC's NIST:
  |>
  |> ============== Copy of contents in part follows=========
  |> Jeff,
  |>
  |>   Thank you and your members of your organization for aiding in the
  |> development and furtherance of the developing standard required by
  |> the presidents directive of September 2000 for Authentication and
  |> Verification standards.  You may also wish to, and it would be
  |> advised for you to forward the most important element along to the
  |> At-large organization you are involved with and attempting to
  |> shepherd.
  |>
  |> Kindly,
  |> B.  Burr NIST
  |> Manager, Security Technology Group
  |>
  |> ===========  End of copy ==============
William E. Burr
NIST
Manager, Security Technology Group
301-975-2914
william.burr@nist.gov