Well, there ya go. NEVER send e-mail while on sinus meds that impare your thinking. This was supposed to be a private e-mail but I flubbed it up. I won't say sorry because I meant what I said, HOWEVER, all of my private chats with Andre Piazza gives me hope that Carlos and Andres have championed a winner into this position. Andres is often active during f2f ICANN meetings with whatever they have for remote participation (which is horrifying) - even from the other side of the world. I do believe that John should have continued in this position but, then again, I'm starting to think that a switch-over of ALL positions (most especially my own) would be good every couple of years. One starts to just get too jaded and tired. D ________________________________ From: at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org on behalf of Thompson, Darlene Sent: Thu 11/20/2008 2:25 PM To: At-Large Worldwide Subject: RE: [At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Letter to the Board Amen, Oh, and just as a personal aside here: I'm really sorry that you didn't get elected for the .mobi thing as it seemed obvious for that to happen. I really just think that ALAC is trying to placate the other regions - which will just get us loaded down with people that don't know the job. I *hope* that Jose does a good job but I just see the two ALCRALO ALAC reps (who championed for him) as constantly complaining about language issues and getting nothing else done. Anyways, I'm just venting here. I just hope that you don't get discouraged and that you keep on with your e-mails. They are appreciated (at least by Evan and myself) even if you don't get much feedback. D ________________________________ From: at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org on behalf of John L Sent: Wed 11/19/2008 5:57 AM To: At-Large Worldwide Subject: Re: [At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Letter to the Board
Have you considered that perhaps ICANN has been beating the new gTLD drum for so long, the local community simply has other concerns?
Well, sure. ICANN's job is to manage the DNS root and to hand out IP space. People have all sorts of other concerns, but they're not what ICANN does. A more relevant question is why, in view of ICANN's extremely narrow job, it costs $100M/yr to do it. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com <http://www.johnlevine.com/> , ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly. _______________________________________________ At-Large mailing list At-Large@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large_atlarge-lists.icann... At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org <http://atlarge.icann.org/>