Re: [wg-c] WG Chairs

[Milton Mueller <mueller@syr.edu>]

Kent:
I'm going to ask you to be a statesman and a true facilitator of
cooperation and withdraw your own name as a co-chair.

I have no idea whether you would be elected or not, but in my opinion it
will seriously harm the functioning of this committee if both Chairs come
from exactly the same school of thinking about the new gTLD problem. You
have a longstanding cooperation with Javier on the CORE RFP committee,
you both held offices in PAB and were observers to POC, and you both
agree on the same basic positions in this committee.

A working group such as this is supposed to develop consensus, trust and
cooperation among a broad variety of stakeholders.

Neither I nor Jon Weinberg have withdrawn our nominations. I would be
happy to withdraw in favor of Jon, and I would encourage you, Kent, to do
likewise, in order to ensure a more balanced approach to this committee.

Kent Crispin wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 10:44:49AM +0100, Siegfried Langenbach wrote:
> > I nominate Kent Crispin.
> > siegfried
>
> Thanks Siegfried --
>
> I notice that no one else has accepted a nomination, other nominees
> are withdrawing, and time is passing.  So, despite the fact that I
> have some misgivings about it, I accept the nomination.  If nothing
> else, doing so should stimulate some activity on the lists :-)
>
> --
> Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
> kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain



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