Re: [ga] Another committee of cronies?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Russ and all assembly members,

admin wrote:

> ===
>
> ICANN's President, M. Stuart Lynn, consulted with the DNSO Names Council,
> PSO Protocol Council, and the chairs of the Internet Engineering Task Force,
> the Internet Architecture Board, and the ICANN Root Server System Advisory
> Committee to locate a diverse and knowledgeable group of members for the New
> TLD Evaluation Process Planning Task Force. The following individuals who
> have graciously agreed to serve on the Task Force, in addition to Dr. Lynn
> as chair:
>
> Jaap Akkerhui

  Never heard of this person.  Does He/she exist???

>
> Sebastien Bachollet

  Never heard of this person either.  Does he exist?

>
> Marilyn S Cade

  Well of course we all know this person.

>
> David R. Conrad

  Bad choice.  But given Stuarts political bent/bias, not surprising.

>
> Michael Heltzer

 Never heard of this guy either....

>
> Geoff Huston

  Another well known bad choice.  But again understandable given Stuarts
political bent/bias.

>
> Roberto Laorden

  Never heard of this person either...  Does he exist?

>
> Vany Martinez
> YJ Park

  Two good choices here.

  So it seems that another selected instead of elected group has been
determined.  What a terrible shame!

>
>
> One or more other members may be added later. In addition, Mr. Adrian Pinder
> (of the U.K. Government) will serve as liaison between the New TLD
> Evaluation Process Planning Task Force and the Governmental Advisory
> Committee.
> =======
>
> Is there anyone on this list representing the people and small businesses
> that would actually be purchasing and using these domains?

  Only two that I can see.

>  The only people
> on the list I know are Marilyn Cade who is a Washington DC lobbyist for AT&T
> and Michael Heltzer who is a lobbyist for INTA ... and we all know what the
> INTA representatives have done to .info.

  Yes we unfortunately do.  A sham in the making perhaps?  Time will
tell the tale...  However by that time, the damage will again already be done
and another mess will likely need to be cleaned up or routed around.

>  These two certainly don't
> represent the majority of the potential domain registrants.  I have asked
> many times how these committees get chosen.  They won't answer so I can only
> guess.

  As have I and a number of other people.  Same non-answer.  I wonder
if "Brown nosing" is involved???

>
>
> As for the groups chose by Lynn for advice their seems to be rhyme or reason
> to look at such a miniscule portion of the internet community who would be
> using the domains.  At this point there is not much of an issue whether
> additional TLDs can be added, the issues are the types of domains that will
> be added, the restrictions placed on who can register, and the registration
> procedures.  There are many, many more groups that should have been
> consulted.

  Agreed here!  But again Stuart Lynn has his head somewhere where
seeing and hearing is very limited.

>
>
> Russ Smith
>
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