Re: [ga] New chair candidates

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

Marc and all assembly members,

  I am sorry and saddened to read here why you believe you cannot
accept the nomination for the Chair of the GA election.  Indeed
unfortunate for all concerned.

Marc Schneiders wrote:

> In private messages it has been suggested to me to accept the nomination
> for chair of the GA. I am afraid I cannot do so. And I would like to
> explain why to all of you.
>
> For several reasons, both personal, but mainly Icannesque I have to
> decline the honour.
>
> I am most disappointed at the way ICANN is handling the report of the .org
> task force, in which I participated on behalf of the GA. Touton
> interfering, the NC Chair trying to put his stamp on it before actually
> discussing it in the NC, it made me a bit bitter. "Due process" seems to
> mean something else in ICANN than in my vocabulary.
>
> Also, as some of you may know, I am running a root-server in the ORSC
> (Open Root Server Confederation) for a year now. This would probably make
> it impossible for the NC to appoint me, given ICANNs president's
> unfortunate stance on these matters.
>
> Things may start to move, not so much perhaps in the old alt roots, but
> elsewhere, as you perhaps have seen on some list today. Tiscali, a not
> very small ISP in Europe, is going to do new.net. I don't like this
> approach, of new.net, but it shows that the 'power' in the DNS will
> perhaps move to ISPs. I am not sure this is good, in fact I still think,
> it isn't. But what can we do? I can put up a server, but what does it
> matter, if nobody points to it?
>
> If this sounds bitter, I apologize. I am still interested in fighting
> for some 'decent' solution towards an open and solid DNS without the
> veneer of a cartel.
>
> Regards,
>
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Regards,
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