PAB FW: BOUNCE pab@gtld-mou.org: Non-member submission from ["Tim Evans" <tim@admiral.ad.jp>]

From: Johansson, Asa (Asa.Johansson@itu.int)
Date: Thu Dec 03 1998 - 00:07:18 PST


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> Subject: BOUNCE pab@gtld-mou.org: Non-member submission from ["Tim
> Evans" <tim@admiral.ad.jp>]
>
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> From: "Tim Evans" <tim@admiral.ad.jp>
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> Subject: Re: PAB elections
> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 09:10:55 +0900
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> ditto.
>
> Tim Evans
> Admiral Systems
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antony Van Couvering <avc@interport.net>
> To: pab@gtld-mou.org <pab@gtld-mou.org>
> Date: Thursday, December 03, 1998 6:22 AM
> Subject: RE: PAB elections
>
>
> >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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