At 18:28 1/12/98 -0500, Robert L. Ellis wrote:
>Kent, I agree with your analysis. As an original PAB member who attended
>Geneva but who has done little else but monitor the mailing list since, I
>move that the existing officers be re-elected by acclamation. The action
>has clearly moved to the DNSO.
>
>Regards,
>- Bob Ellis
I support this motion.
Peter Gerrand
CEO, Melbourne IT
CORE Member
>At 01:07 PM 12/1/98 -0800, you wrote:
>>Believe it or not, a year has passed, and, according to the draft
>>charter for PAB the term of office for the current officers is
>>expiring. It is, therefore, my duty to call for elections.
>>
>>The circumstances, however, are rather uncertain. As I indicated in
>>my email a couple of weeks ago, the current best guess is that the
>>policy body that will deal with the gTLDs will be the DNSO -- neither
>>PAB nor POC will be in the role they were originally designed for,
>>but the DNSO as currently envisioned is borrows a great deal from PAB
>>and POC.
>>
>>The world we see today is much different than we hoped for one year
>>ago, and, indeed, in my pessimistic moments I sometimes think that
>>the forces of darkness have prevailed. But in my more optimistic
>>moments I think that some minor progress has been made, and that the
>>DNSO is where we should now be expending our energies.
>>
>>But we are still left with the following question: is there any
>>significant interest in holding an election?
>>
>>If so, then we will hold one, and I might even nominate myself for
>>some office.
>>
>>If not, then I propose that we simply keep the PAB mailing list
>>going, for a while at least, and see what happens. While there may
>>not be the energy to maintain an organizational structure, there may
>>still be some utility in maintaining a communications channel to
>>those who support the principles of the gTLD-MoU.
>>
>>Comments?
>>
>>--
>>Kent Crispin, PAB Chair "No reason to get excited",
>>kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke...
>>PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55
>>http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html
>>
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