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> ["Antony Van Couvering" <avc@interport.net>]
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> From: "Antony Van Couvering" <avc@interport.net>
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> Subject: RE: PAB elections
> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 17:25:52 -0500
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> Kent,
>
> I think you should keep on keeping on until things are better sorted.
>
> Antony
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-pab@gtld-mou.org [mailto:owner-pab@gtld-mou.org]On Behalf Of
> > Kent Crispin
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 4:07 PM
> > To: pab@gtld-mou.org
> > Subject: PAB elections
> >
> >
> > 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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