Re: [ga] Another committee of cronies?

[k@widgital.com (Kristy McKee)]

Wow, those are all people who have excuses made for them as they are 
overworked and this is cause of their lack of attention to detail.  I can 
not image how they would have time to do more.

That is strange or they are not overworked and their lack of attention to 
detail is really not that, which makes more likely logical sense.

As far adding new TLDs, it really doesn't matter as technology has already 
moved beyond the requirement for an Authoritative Root.  Yes, there will be 
hard times for .biz and .info registrants regardless of which network they 
are using.  I estimate in about one year these folks (ICANN, etc.) will be 
asking their contacts for new jobs.

Also, Russ, if you are interested I know from experience how people are 
chosen to become a part of one of these groups.  It is not a fair process 
and has nothing to with technical skill, knowledge, or understanding.  The 
IETF has not been a technical standard setting body for a while now as we 
all are working with other groups who do require technical skill, 
knowledge, and understanding.

good morning, by the way,

~k

At 11:25 PM 8/13/2001 -0400, 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
>Sebastien Bachollet
>Marilyn S Cade
>David R. Conrad
>Michael Heltzer
>Geoff Huston
>Roberto Laorden
>Vany Martinez
>YJ Park
>
>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?  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.  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 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.
>
>Russ Smith
>
>
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