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I must be attending the wrong ICANN meetings

enoss — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 09:20:45 -0500

Susan Crawford posted an anonymous comment that makes some powerful and controversial statements in the post "Time for Reformation of ...

domaincestry

enoss — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 04:36:06 -0500

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?

hmmm......perhaps they can

enoss — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 04:10:07 -0500

let's see. ombudsman, check. progress in the IANA function, check. hearty new gtld discussion, check. a strong contribution from nomcom in manning key ICANN posts, check (especially the addition of joi!). peaceful relations between ICANN and Verisign? well, four out of five isn't bad.

I saw more clear signs of progress at this meeting then I have at any other in all the years I have been attending these things. frank fowlie looks really promising as the new ombudsman. doug barton, ex-yahoo dns geek, appears to be making real progress with the IANA function. these two things have been constant laments from ICANN critics.

the contribution of the nominating committee is especially interesting. I had originally thought of the nominating committee as a bridge to eventual direct elections. now I am not so sure. if the nominating committee keeps stocking the pool with strong candidates that appear to be quite likely to well represent the interests of internet users, not business, not policy and not governments, then the need for direct elections may be obviated.

bret, susan what do you think?

truer words have rarely been spoken

enoss — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:25:39 -0400

brewster kahle at web2.0:

"it shouldn't be a crime in this country [ed. or in any other] to give ...

alls not orwell

enoss — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:33:24 -0400

we inch ever closer to "1984". my favourite line:

"The bill would train agents to investigate intellectual-property crimes"....

of auctions and the prius

enoss — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:07:07 -0400

This is the longer response I promised. I will try and deal with three things. First, why we should be ...

rim job

enoss — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:08:34 -0400

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enoss — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:39:37 -0400

I was struck by an article yesterday (that I can't link to because of a combination of the national post's...

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enoss — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 16:29:37 -0400

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so little posting.....

enoss — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:43:07 -0400

I have been completely inactive (from a blogging perspective) for over two months now. I thoght I would share a ...

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enoss — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:52:51 -0400

Last week we took a big step down a new road with the acquisition of Boardtown, company based in ...

should spam filters be free for ISP users?

enoss — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 12:08:36 -0400

- need for premium email

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enoss — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:29:06 -0500

This looks promising.

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enoss — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 18:14:25 -0500

In the past I have talked about how access, the ISP business, was the only Internet service where telcos and ...

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enoss — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:20:27 -0500

I was reminded today of the importance of customer service and how it is really a matter of culture that ...

thanks

enoss — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 11:38:20 -0500

As I think back on 2003 and look forward to 2004 to I wanted to take a few moments to ...

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enoss — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 15:25:53 -0500

As I use blogware more and more I have become convinced that there is an even larger opportunity in storage ...

Whassis WSIS

enoss — Sun, 07 Dec 2003 11:09:04 -0500

There is much talk currently of the WSIS meeting taking place in Geneva next week which means some ...

pot....kettle....black

enoss — Thu, 27 Nov 2003 18:05:18 -0500

In yesterday's National Post Mark Evans had a column that reinforced for me just how ridiculous the ILECs and Cablecos are.

get in your users clickstream (and a walk down memory lane)

enoss — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 09:14:39 -0500

I want to poke at the issue of what is usually called an "ISP Portal". I am referring to a ...

an industry in transition.....opportunities abound

enoss — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 11:30:24 -0500

I am now able to get back to posting after the better part of three weeks on the road. I ...

digital id - top down or bottom up?

enoss — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:20:37 -0400

As I get ready for Digital ID World I have been thinking about identity and what has transpired between the first Digital ID World last year and now. The short answer is very little.

don't let your babies grow up to be lawyers

enoss — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:02:01 -0400

I want to make a controversial statement. Lawyers are killing the North American economy.

A few things up front. First, ...

Servicing the customer is more than answering the phone

enoss — Tue, 07 Oct 2003 14:13:10 -0400

In a post on the Tucows reseller discussion list some points were made that I wanted to deal with ...

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enoss — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:19:34 -0400

Now this looks like fun. I am surprised it has not been done before. And Desalle lives across the street from me!

Saving the Internet......one account at a time

enoss — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:52:43 -0400

After reading Bret Blaser's thoughts (via Doc) on publicizing the Internet I was struck by how much easier this ...

Verisign, SiteFinder and Stewardship

enoss — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:18:39 -0400

Stewardship....One who manages another's property, finances, or other affairs.

I have been thinking alot about stewardship lately in my role ...

If at first you don't succeed....

enoss — Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:37:04 -0400

Now that blogware is pretty well finished I will recommence my blogging efforts. I suspect my posts will be weekly ...

something I posted to the ISP-CEO list

enoss — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:41:40 -0400

I have written a bunch of things on the topic of xSP core business functions. I think I should drag ...

I think I will call them all why......

enoss — Tue, 13 May 2003 18:06:04 -0400

Another head-scratcher. Why are no hosting shops selling blogging tools and no (few) blogging shops selling hosting?

Weird.