Re: [ga] Another committee of cronies?

["Patrick Corliss" <patrick@quad.net.au>]

Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:25:42 -0400, Russ Smith 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.

Hi Russ

Geoff Huston is fairly well-known in the internet community, particularly in
Australia, and is easily found on google.com.  He is the former sub-delegate
for .edu.au.  His home page provides publications and other information.

There are no privacy implications in my providing the following links:

http://www.telstra.net/gih/
http://www.telstra.net/gih/#papers

Chief Scientist, Telstra Internet
Member, Internet Architecture Board
Secretary, Executive Committee, APNIC
Co-chair, Internet Engineering and Planning Group

http://www.anu.edu.au/mail-archives/link/link9906/0474.html
http://www.anu.edu.au/mail-archives/link/link9906/0476.html

As Chair, Internet Society Board of Trustees, see for example:
http://www.isoc.org/members/vote/2000election/2000results.shtml

Hope this helps.

Best regards
Patrick Corliss


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