Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] First JAS WG call - follow-up

[Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 02/05/2010 12:13 PM, Avri Doria wrote:


> On 2 May 2010, at 04:13, Sébastien Bachollet wrote:
>
> > Volunteers (and/or nominations) sought for 
> chair(s) or co-chairs for the WG, to be appointed at a future meeting.
> >
> > I would like to nominate, to be co-chairs:
> > Avri Doria -  (GNSO ­ NCSG)
> > and Evan Leibovitch (from ALAC ­ At-Large - NARALO).
> > All the best
> >
>
>
> Thanks you for the nomination.  If other people 
> think it is a good idea, I will certainly 
> consider it.  I endorse the idea of Evan as one of the co-chairs.
> For myself, I am committed to this effort and 
> have been yelling in the wildness about it since 
> the days of the new gTLD GNSO effort.
> But in considering me, I ask people to take the following into account.
>
> My one real concern is that having thought on it 
> for a while I may be a bit too much of a 
> champion for the cause as well as for specific 
> issues within that cause.  And while I consider 
> myself good at putting my concerns aside for 
> neutrality's sake, I also know that it is 
> sometimes impossible to really completely do so.
> Also, I have been lobbying for years that an 
> independent foundation be established to take 
> windfall profits from auctions and even from the 
> fees themselves (assuming there are some after 
> the round is over) and do fund raising from 
> registrars and the like.  While I could stop 
> championing this idea if the WG decided that 
> this was not a goal, it would make me sad to do so.
> Thanks again, Sébastien for the confidence.
>
> a.
Avri, as one of the other voices in the 
wilderness, I support the nomination. This is not 
a traditional working group where there are 
different "sides", it is a WG looking for any and 
all methodologies to address the problem. In this 
case, I strongly support a chair (or co-chair) 
who is passionate about the cause.
Alan