[ncdnhc-discuss] Bucharest, June 27, 2002

[Dave Crocker]

At 09:37 PM 6/27/2002 -0400, James Love wrote:
>...  ICANN had a "consensus"
>recommendation to award the bid to a non-profit, but at
>the urging of Robert Blokzijl and other board members, the
>ICANN board decided to eliminate the non-profit
>requirement in Accra.

Rob made no such urging.  Rob made some comments that had to do with the 
difference between large and small scale operation.  The comment was 
entirely mundane and would have been made by anyone with the necessary 
operations experience.  The record is clear.  It has been discussed and 
re-discussed.  That record is neither ambiguous nor is it subtle.

Anyone claiming otherwise and who has seen that record is knowingly telling 
an untruth.

You are also ignoring the fact that the Board vote on this matter was 
unanimous.

So go ahead, Jamie.  Substantiate your false claim.


>  Rober Blokzijl's wife worked for
>Nuestar, one of the commercial bidders who is not teamed
>up with a non-profit,

And since she now has no relationship with Neustar, how does her prior 
relationship have any effect on the current Board activities?  You seem to 
want to ignore a small matter of REAL incentives.  Rob has none.  So you 
now have the burden of explaining why you are insisting on continuing to 
raise this entirely irrelevant issue.


>  and. now Blokzijl is named as
>potential board member for Organic Names, another
>commercial only bidder..  Someone said Blokzijl and Amadeu
>Abril Abril have recused themselves on org at this
>meeting, but Amadeu was questioning some of the bidders
>anyway.

Ahh.  So Rob recuses himself and yet you still feel compelled to cite him 
as somehow relevant.  Perhaps you would care to explain why you are wasting 
people's time with this continued character assassination of Rob?


>I had raised concerns much earlier about the bidding
>system, and had asked the ICANN staff and board to have a
>two stage process, where it picked the non-profit first,
>and then the non-profit picked the operator.

And you thereby nicely ignored the fact that this makes it impossible to 
evaluate the competence of the registry with respect to the most important 
issues, namely the actual operation of the registry.

Oh.  That's right.  I keep forgetting that this is all an academic exercise 
in idealistic civil society, with no regard for the practical work of 
administering name registrations.

d/

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