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

[Adam Peake]

Milton,

This should have been discussed on the constituency mailing list. I 
am sure you will come up with some bullshit about your elected duty 
as an "adcom member".  Rubbish. Dave should have been given the 
opportunity to explain his relationship with Neustar and answer any 
questions you and other members might have.  Our procedures are 
clear, membership issues are to be discussed on the constituency list.

At no time has Dave tried to hide his relationship with Neustar, he 
volunteered information about his work for them (at or shortly before 
our meeting in Marina del Rey last year) when Neustar applied for one 
of the new TLDs. This is not a new issue.

I think it would be appropriate for the constituency's administrative 
committee to send an apology to Dave Crocker and Mr. Mazliach.

Thank you,

Adam

Adam Peake
GLOCOM Tokyo



>Dear Mr. Mazliach:
>We appreciate your organization's membership in the
>Noncommercial Domain Name Holders' Constituency
>(NCDNHC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned
>Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>
>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.
>
>Mr. Crocker is listed as a member of the Neustar
>team which just successfully won the award
>for management of the .us top-level domain.
>In making domain name policy, there may be a
>conflict of interest between Neustar's interests
>as a commercial registry, and those of
>noncommercial domain name holders. Of
>course, as a bona fide noncommcerical
>organization SVPA is still eligible.
>
>I'm sure you can agree that it would be
>inappropriate for someone with such a large
>stake in a commercial domain name
>service provider to represent noncommercial
>interests in the domain name policy making
>process.
>
>This problem has arisen with a few other
>organizations before, and our solution has
>been to make sure that there are different
>organizational representatives.
>
>Regards,
>Dr. Milton Mueller,
>Syracuse University
>North American representative to the
>Names Council for the NCDNHC
>
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