[comments-gtlds] Where is ICANN headed ?

["Jim Fleming" <jfleming@anet.com>]

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Provisional Names Council members elected by the "gtld" Constituency 
NorthA (.us) - Don Telage dont@netsol.com 
NorthA (.us) - David R. Johnson djohnson@wilmer.com 
NorthA (.us) - Phil Sbarbaro psbar@hanson-molloy.com 

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To summarize...Richard Sexton, a Canadian software developer
and a person who has dedicated years to the Internet and to the
names business and Joop Teernstra, a New Zealander and very
active contributor in all of these matters have been denied spots
here in favor of Don Telage and NSI attorneys ?

....and then they are listed as "elected"...by whom ?

As a reminder, Don Telage and Phil Sbarbaro (along with
Kim Hubbard) were the initial Board of Directors of ARIN.
http://www.arin.net People claim that domain names do not
have anything to do with IP addresses. One should note the
heavy influence of RIPE on the ccTLD crowd via CENTR. I
am not sure what this IPO thing is all about.

@@@ http://www.centr.org/constpage/minutes/adcommins130799.html

"Theresa Swinhart (mci) working on IPO"

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Meanwhile ICANN is helping the IETF to launch IPv6, with
little concern for the privacy issues of putting NIC card
addresses into the IPv6 address fields.


Jim Fleming