Colleagues
Thank you
for your vote of thanks today.
This is to say "au
revoir".
I was one of the
first batch of Nominating Committee appointees to GNSO Council in June 2003.
It has been
an interesting, learning, and challenging experience. I have met and got to know
many new and interesting people.
I came to Council with
experience as an early adopter user of the Internet and a knowledge of
Internet naming and addressing. However, ICANN and its role, structure,
history, politics and issues were largely new to me. It took a long time
to learn and understand.
Now, two years
later, I'm fully supportive of ICANN as the body responsible for the
governance of the core Internet and of the of the bottom up consensus driven
model.
I intend to maintain
an interest in ICANN. I will be at the ICANN Meeting in Wellington in
March 2006 and I look forward to seeing you there.
Kind
regards,
Alick