in my comments to the ICANN board yesterday I noted that Roberto Gaetano and I first met at the original CORE meetings in '97/'98.

I was struck by the number of people who I first met back then that are still well involved in the process. They include the following:

- Roberto Gaetano (ICANN board member)
- Hal Lubsen (CEO, Afilias)
- Ken Stubbs (GNSO council)
- Amadeu Abril i Abril (former board member, former gnso member, self-admitted ICANN groupie)
- Antony Van Couvering (founder NetNames, traveled to Tuvalu with me in '98 in the early .tv fiasco)
- Bob Connely (registrar emiritus)
- John Kane (now with enom)
- Richard Lindsay (formerly of GMO)
- Nigel Roberts (Jersey ccTLD)
- Jonathan Robinson (NetBenefit)
- Tom Barrett (encirca and .pw)
- Dave Crocker (brandenburg)
- Kent Crispin (songbird)

I am sure I am missing others. Who else was there that is still involved?