[ncdnhc-discuss] Membership Status of Silicon Valley Public Access Link

[Dave Crocker]

At 12:41 PM 10/30/2001 -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:
>Currently your representative in NCDNHC is Mr. David Crocker, an emeritus 
>Board member of SVPA. In order to avoid a conflict of interest, we would
>request that your organization appoint a new representative.


Milton,

A slightly interesting retaliatory effort, on your part.  Transparent, of 
course, but then subtlety and carefulness have not been your hallmark.

A few items:

1.      Copying the entire NCDNHC is the definitive demonstration that you 
are more interested in playing to an audience than dealing with any real 
problems.

2.      Had you bothered to do a modicum of research, you would have found 
out that I  consult Neustar on technology, not on policy, and I have no 
access to their business plans.  For example, see 
<http://www.icannfacts.org/about.html>.

3.      My relationship with Neustar has been public knowledge since its 
start and is documented on my web page.


Therefore:

1.      Please provide a citation to the authoritative constituency 
document that substantiates your claim of policies and procedures 
concerning a conflict of interest.  There is nothing in the constituency's 
temporary charter that provides such authority.

2.      Please provide documentation that you are representing an 
authorized decision from the constituency, rather than on your own, 
personal initiative.

You raise a number of issues concerning conflicts of interest, such as your 
own involvement in dispute resolution, or anyone else's acquisition of 
funds from any company that makes money from the Internet.  (I hope that 
you and everyone else appreciates the difficulty of finding people who do 
not benefit financially from their Internet work.)

I would be glad to see this group develop consistent rules concerning the 
matter, but would suggest that it be done carefully.  Of course, that means 
you must recuse yourself from involvement, Milton, given your complete lack 
of balance in dealing with me (or anyone else who has the gall to disagree 
with you) and your utter disregard for fair process.

As for the rest of the constituency, it will be interesting to see whether 
Milton's excesses ever go too far to motivate the constituency to replace 
this wayward soul with one that is less destructive.

d/

ps.     Milton, have you noticed that the constituency still does not have 
a formal charter? One would have thought that fixing that deficiency was 
part of the Adcom job, although it is not nearly as self-serving as 
creating public controversy.  Any chance you will considering doing your 
actual job?


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