[registrars] Qualifications to serve as Secretary of the Registrar Constituency.

["Robert F. Connelly" <rconnell@psi-japan.com>]

Dear Colleagues:

PSI-Japan* was formed in 1981 to provide information on Japanese Government 
purchases of goods.  Our services were provided to foreign businesses and 
governments.

On 1 April 1983, the Japanese laws were changed to permit computer message 
switching.   Prior to that date, the Laws prohibited sending or receiving 
electronic mail from or to Japan.

By July of 1983, we were shipping our formatted translations to the EC and 
U.S. governments by electronic mail.  Later in the year, I was carrying a 
small portable computer and sending and receiving Email from Australia and 
the U.S.  We were pioneer users of the technologies which developed into 
the Internet.

I attended the IAHC meeting in Geneva 29 and 30 April and 1 May 1997.  I 
signed the IAHC MoU on the proposed gTLDs in behalf of PSI-Japan.  When the 
decision was made to abandon the lottery system for selecting registrars 
for the new gTLDs, PSI-Japan opted to be among the first to  be qualified 
to become a member of CORE.

Coincident with the above acts, the Policy Advisory Body (PAB) was 
formed.  Antony VanCouvering was elected to be the first Chair of PAB, Rick 
Wesson became the first Vice-Chair and I was selected the first 
Secretary.  In November of 1997, I was elected to the Executive Committee 
of CORE.

Most of you know the history which followed.  I have been a part of the 
development of the processes under which we registrars now operate.  I am 
also close to the technical side of this business -- and I deal on a day to 
day basis with the needs of customers for gTLDs.  Our thinking is not 
limited to a single country, region or continent.  We are "Globally 
Centric", if there be such a thing;-)  We recognize the diverse views and 
regulations which accompany trademark and copyright uses and abuses -- and 
the way that they often clash with right to privacy rules.  We are also 
sensitive to diverse cultural norms of our various countries.

I have served as Secretary to a number of groups throughout my career.  If 
elected to this post, I pledge myself to be an even handed, conscientious 
Secretary to the Constituency.

For further details of my education and experience, you are referred to my 
resume at the following URL.  (This resume was last revised two years ago):

	http://psi-japan.com/accjrfcbio.html

Respectfully submitted,
Bob Connelly

* PSI-Japan was originally incorporated as "Procurement Services 
International".