Danny Younger wrote:
Did these candidates provide Statements of Interest that revealed their employment history?
Danny - further to the background I sent you last night offline, I'd also add that my statement of interests has been a matter of the public record for as long as I can remember. In early 2006, I formalized them at the follow URL: http://www.byte.org/blog/_WebPages/StatementofInterestsforRossRader.html My telephone numbers are also listed on that page for anyone that has questions. I will be updating that page after the AGM to reflect the fact that I will no longer be an official representative of the registrar constituency in any way. My term of appointment to the GNSO Council by the registrar constituency will have come to a close and all of my elected task force work will also have completed. As I mentioned offline to you, in discussing this new found time with Robert a month or so ago, I had mentioned to him that I would like to rekindle my participation in the ALAC (I'm pretty sure that last time I participated in a meeting was at the ICANN meeting in Rome) and to start seriously looking at how we can bring some real meaning to the GA structure. I was very flattered when he let me know that he had put my name forward for this position and truly believe that I can bring a lot to the nominating committee table on behalf of the user community. I had mentioned to Robert yesterday that I would like to get the ball rolling early in terms of soliciting feedback and input on the expectations and recommendations of the membership in advance of the formal nominating committee process getting started. If you have any suggestions on how I might best approach this, I'd really appreciate the guidance. I see a great opportunity this year to move ICANN further away from the institutional bias of many of the insiders and instead start to form expectations of ICANN as a steward of a public resource (and not purely that of a coordinator of technical resources and security concerns). I don't see a long term future for ICANN unless it assumes a role as a public steward and all that this would entail. Anyways, I hope this further clarifies my intentions. If there are other questions that I can answer, please let me know. regards, -ross