> [sri]
>> 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.
>
Just out of curiosity, Kent, what did you hope to achieve with being PAB
chair? Would you be happy to impose the CORE and MoU model in spite of the
lack of consensus for that? What would success mean to you personally?
You might want to add, Kent, that in discussions on the various lists, you
have shown a markedly different appreciation of democracy and "consent of
the governed" than I hold dear.
I am just an ordinary DN holder, but with a legal background and a pretty
keen vision of the 2 roads that lie ahead for the Internet and its users.
Twenty five years ago at Amsterdam University I had pretty good teachers in
Constitutional and Administrative Law and my expatriate career has taken me
through many places with corrupt Constitutional or Administrative
Structures. I know them when I see them. I have witnessed 2 Revolutions in
my life, one from very close up.
Like many others who have joined IDNO, I have been alerted to abuse
-of-power by some personal experience with my Domain.
IDNO can be a collection of angry people. It can also be a constructive
constituency of ICANN's DNSO.
It all depends on how we are treated.
--Joop Teernstra LL.M.-- , bootstrap of
the Cyberspace Association,
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.idno.org