By the way -- I asked earlier about the location of an archive, and
no one responded. Is there one?
> In totality of larger context of things, which includes - past postings
> (probably missed by you) and with it, the preset tone, expectations and
> implicit context existing from prior to your coming aboard - which will take
> a while more to understand/absorb.
Bear in mind that I have been involved in this for literally years.
I know many of the players and their viewpoints, and can legitimately
make a fair extrapolation from their current statements.
> Will it not be reasonable on our part to point out to you that you might
> have missed considering soemthing in the mix before classifying or bashing
> us ?
In all honesty, I don't think I missed anything as far as "bashing"
is concerned. It is pretty clear from the set of messages I have
received that people feel completely comfortable with fairly
emotionally charged negative statements about ISOC and ICANN.
> Hey you are as human as us - aren't you ? :)
I've never really been able to tell.
> Please may I request you to post the same on yourself so we all can
> understand and appreciate your points better to. That way it will keep the
> whole environment positive and conductive but also aid us all correct or
> point things to one another before it turns negative.
Sure. I'm 50 years old, happily married, and have a vastly
entertaining 4 year old daughter. I've been involved in the DNS wars
since 1996. I have written many papers on the subject, thousands of
email messages, and attended many meetings. I am the elected Chair
of the Policy Advisory Body of the gTLD-MoU, and a member of the POC.
I have been very involved in the formation of ICANN and the DNSO and
some of the other constituencies. I am basically a technical guy: I
have a Masters degree in Computer Science from a well-known
university; I work as a computer scientist at a government lab; I
implemented a prototype shared registry system; I was one of the
editors of the requirements document for the CORE SRS. But while I
am a technical guy, I have come to know several intellectual property
lawyers, and to appreciate their perspective. I believe I also have
a very good understanding of the political environment surrounding
ICANN, the USG, and NSI.
-- Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be kent@songbird.com lonesome." -- Mark Twain