[ga] Re: DOC ICANN buck passing

["Karl E. Peters" <bridge@darientel.net>]

Joe,
    Thanks for keeping an ear to the political ground for us and alerting us
to the sad state of affairs that have characterized this administration in the
US, though the affairs are usually less political in nature. I encourage all
US readers of Joe's post to ask their representatives (now running for
re-election!!!) who is responsible for ICANN oversight and what they are doing
to keep up with such a key issue to the future of American and global
business, the internet! Post their responses here and for press people to be
aware of. They are there to represent us and work for our interests, let your
local papers know when they do not!

Thanks again, Joe!!!
Karl E. Peters
karl.peters@bridgecompanies.com

"!Dr. Joe Baptista" wrote:

> Just in case someone is interested - there is no one at the DOC in charge
> of ICANN.  It looks as if there's going to be a bit of buck passing at the
> NTIA since Burr's departure.
>
> Burr left the NTIA on Sept 8th and her responsibilities were trasnferred
> to Ken Schagrin.  Ken called me from Montreal yesturday (he's enjoying the
> recent funeral we had there - great for internatinal contacts) and he
> confirmed that he will be transfered to another government department
> (trade) on Oct 10th.  That's five days from now and he has no idea who is
> going to replace him - or at least won't say.
>
> Now this is conveniently happening in the middle of an icann election
> during a very contraversial TLD application.  I commened the NTIA on
> avoiding it's responsibility.  This is the classical example of the civil
> service suffle called "let's avoid responsibility".  I'm not impressed.
>
> regards
> joe
>
> --
> Joe Baptista
>
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