RE: [soac-mapo] Antony Van Couvering Statement of Internet

[Sébastien Bachollet <sebastien@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was unable to read hundreds’ of mails and to participate to le last call.

Apologies.

I was helping my son for his new life in Montpellier (south of France) in an
engineer school of chemistry (if you have any link to help him to find
training periods it will be helpful – but I don’t know if the very specific
ICANN chemistry is the one he will be looking for ;)).

I am back to Versailles but almost ready to leave to see some (a lot?) of
you in Vilnius.

 

Then I don’t know really why I open this mail but it was a good catch.

Well done Antony.

All the best

 

 

Sébastien Bachollet

 <mailto:sebastien@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> sebastien@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

+33 6 07 66 89 33

 

De : owner-soac-mapo@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-soac-mapo@xxxxxxxxx] De la part
de Antony Van Couvering
Envoyé : jeudi 9 septembre 2010 09:48
À : soac-mapo
Cc : gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Objet : [soac-mapo] Antony Van Couvering Statement of Internet

 

1.  Current vocation, employer and position:

 

Current vocation:  Waiting for Godot

Employer: Minds + Machines, LLC

Position: CEO

 

2.  Type of work performed in #1 above:  Tiddlywinks and experimenting with
different comic verse forms. For instance limericks:

 

The GAC denounced Public Morality

With a decisive instrumentality

Saying "Now you must fix

This Module Six,

And don't speak to us of reality!"

 

The difference between content and string

Is a devil to solve in Beijing

Or indeed Glasgow

For it's easy to see how

The choice is annoying to Konstantine

 

And clerihews:

 

Bertrand de La Chapelle

Is a hard man to quell

His new status gives him authority

To once again propose a category

 

Chuck Gomes is fair

That's why he's Chair

He said, "I don't want to cause vexation,

But I'll be out of touch on vacation."

 

3.    Identify any financial ownership or senior management/leadership
interest in registries, registrars or other firms that are interested
parties in ICANN policy or any entity with which ICANN has a transaction,
contract, or other arrangement.

 

I have an arrangement with Richard Tindal never to speak about that night in
Paris. 

 

4.    Identify any type of commercial or non-commercial interest in ICANN
GNSO policy development processes and outcomes. 

 

-- I have an insatiable interest in working group proceedings and often
listen to my comprehensive collection of MP3 recordings of teleconferences.
I secretly make my own recordings and I hope to make money by selling
pirated versions that include snippets from the beginnings and ends of calls
that are not included in the official MP3s provided by ICANN. 

 

Are you representing other parties? 

 

-- There's a party?  I represent that what are called parties at ICANN are
nothing of the kind.  All the real parties are elsewhere.  I do not
represent any of them.

 

Describe any arrangements/agreements between you and any other group,
constituency or person(s) regarding your nomination/selection as a work team
member. 

 

--  The business constituency and I have an agreement that I will not join
them, nor be selected by them for any ICANN work.  I pay AT&T $150/month and
my therapist $300/hr.

 

Describe any tangible or intangible benefit that you receive from
participation in such processes. 

 

-- So, so many.  It has kept me off the street and prevented a possibly
lucrative life of crime.  I have a very good knowledge of hotels near the
L.A. airport.  I have been lectured on the importance of the global
information society by ministers of communication of several autocratic
states.  I have over 1 million miles on American Airlines.  I know now that
trademarks exist to protect the consumer.  I have learned that unlike any
other technology, the cost of a domain name magically increases as a
registry makes more of them.  I can't say if these benefits are tangible or
intangible.   

 

For example, if you are an academic or NGO and use your position to advance
your ability to participate, this should be a part of the statement of
interest, just as should employment by a contracted party, or a business
relationship with a non- contracted party who has an interest in policy
outcomes.

 

-- Sensu stricto, I am an NGO, unaffiliated with any government, although my
company does provide taxes to the State of New York for the privilege of
paying me to write SOIs.  This has not advanced my interests in the least. 

 

5.   Are you a member of a GNSO Constituency / Stakeholder Group, and if
yes, which one(s)?  No, but I still have my ICANN membership card.