RE: [wg-c] WG Chairs

[Ivan Pope <ivan@netnames.com>]

Personally I would also prefer not to have _more_ CORE and POC members
running the show. While in some ways there is a lot of knowledge, there is
also a lot of old thinking about how things should be.
I am already amazed that the Names Council can just nominate a Chairman for
a working group. How did it nominate Javier? 
The wider range of people we have here, the better. The more people who just
run working businesses, rather than who have spent years in POC/CORE etc
politics, the more sense we are likely to see.
For that reason, I would not stand :-)
But I encourage others than Kent to stand and to get involved.
Cheers,
Ivan

Ivan Pope
NetNames
Managing Your Internet Identity
> The history of Mr. Crispin, some of which I have just discovered,
> compels me to nominate myself.  I did not come into this looking for
> conspiracies, and I'm not one to spend my time chasing phantoms.
> However, I've turned up something that disturbs me greatly.
> 
> I discovered the PAB archives at http://songbird.com/pab/mail , an
> organization of which Mr. Crispin was president and Mr. Sola was an
> active member.  This was the Policy Advisory Board for the gTLD-MoU.
> Its duty was to advise the POC (Policy Oversight Committee for the
> gTLD-MoU) on policy.
> 
> It would seem that PAB has some strong interests in particular
> directions.  I quote directly from
> http://songbird.com/pab/mail/1183.html , in which Mr. Crispin is
> apparently advocating that his group attempt to become what is
> now the DNSO (and the pNC):
> 
>   "I think we should consider trying to make PAB the nucleus 
> of a Names
>   Support Organization, and POC the nucleus of the Names 
> Council, and I
>   would like to see some serious discussion of the possibility. There
>   are other organizations with goals quite antithetical to 
> ours that are
>   going to step up to the plate, and they will likely carry the day if
>   we don't act. This is a *very* *serious* *possibility*."
> 
> A quick read of some of the other members of PAB turns up:
> Amadeu Abril i Abril 
> Javier Sola
> Bill Semich
> Nii Quaynor
> 
> ...all of whom were members of PAB, and current members of the pNC.
> Mr. Crispin is also an active participant in ISOC, an organization on
> whose board of trustees Mr. Sola sits.  Mr.s Crispin and Sola also
> sit on the GTLD-MoU POC.
> 
> In the interest of fairness, and of preventing any further capture, I
> put myself forward as a candidate.  I've already disclosed my 
> interests
> to the WG.
> 
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