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
>
> 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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Dear All
Yes, I concur with Robert.
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