[registrars] Message from Peter Gerrand

["Michael D. Palage" <mpalage@infonetworks.com>]

This message was sent by Peter Gerrand to the registrar list server but it
was bounced, so I am forwarding it on for him.

I would like to thank Melbourne IT for their help in rectifying a confusing
situation.

Best regards,

Michael D. Palage




Mike
I am confirming that Erica's status with Melbourne IT has recently changed
by mutual agreement from that of a direct employee to that of consultant to
Melbourne IT. I regret that the administration of our e-mail system did not
make this transition a smooth one, and has caused difficulties to DNSO
members wanting to contact Erica over the past fortnight.
The company remains committed to supporting her continuing participation as
an elected representative in the Names Council, to actively look after the
interests of registrars in ICANN policy development.

Peter Gerrand
CEO Melbourne IT

-----Original Message-----
From: erica.roberts [mailto:erica.roberts@telstra.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 12:02 AM
To: Paul M. Kane
Cc: peter.gerrand@melbourneit.com.au
Subject: RE: [Fwd: [registrars] EMERGENCY NC NOMINATION / ELECTION]


Thaks - yes you are correct in thinking I have the support of Melbourne IT.

Feel free to confirm this with Peter Gerrand, CEO, M-IT (whom I have
included
in the cc)

erica

>===== Original Message From "Paul M. Kane" <Paul.Kane@REACTO.com> =====
>Erica...
>
>I am going to stop this....
>
>Am I correct in thinking you still have the support of MIT for you to be
>their NC representative...??.
>
>Best
>
>Paul
>
>
>----- Forwarded Message -----
>From: <mpalage@infonetworks.com>
>To:  <registrars@dnso.org>
>Subject: [registrars] EMERGENCY NC NOMINATION / ELECTION
>
>Hello people,
>
>I know most of you are probably busy preparing registry applications prior
>to the October 2 deadline, however, there is an emergency that has arisen
>within the constituency. It appears that Erica Roberts no longer works for
>Melobourne IT. Under the ICANN rules, people NOT companies are elected to
>ICANN positions. Therefore she may be technically our representative.
>However, this must be analyzed in light of our by-laws that require
memebers
>to be a ICANN accredited registrar. Depending on how this legal situtation
>is resolved I believe it is vital that we maintain our full names counsel
>representation during this time. Assisiting us in maintaining our full
names
>counsel representation is an item that we voted on early in the year that
>established a proper chain of command in the case of the inability of a
>Names Counsel representativeto fulfill his/her duties. Luckily this and the
>efforts of Paul Kane helped us maintain our full block of voting power
>yesterday. Now that Ken Stubbs has returned from London, he will be
actively
>involved as well in protecting our collective interests.
>
>Depending how this issue is resolved I believe it would be prudent to start
>accepting nominations for any person who is NOT a citizen from North
America
>or Europe and would be interested in running for the third Names Counsel
>seat. If Erica resigns or it is determined that she cannot be our
>representative because she is not working for an ICANN accredited
>registrars, then next Friday I will start a voting process that will last
>for seven days if there are multiple candidates. In this case voting would
>be scheduled to end on September 29, 2000.
>
>Mike