Re: [ga] ICANN's Fellowship Program

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George and all,

  To answer your last question:  I would say that those you refrence,
were "Seat Fillers", with a reserved place at the "Fellowship trough",
and that trough is always full of slop.

George Kirikos wrote:

> Hello,
>
> --- Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Consider the following list of fellowship recipients (San Juan, Los
> > Angeles, New Delhi); I would be curious to know how many you can name
> > that have ever participated in any discussion on any ICANN list or
> > public comment forum?
>
> My point exactly. Indeed, take a peek at the public comments for new
> gTLDs, the latest "hot topic"
>
> http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtld-guide/
>
> and note that even though the public comment period for non-English
> languages is still open until January 7:
>
> http://www.icann.org/fr/topics/new-gtlds/comments-fr.htm
>
> which do get posted to the main archive, there have been minimal
> non-English contributions (the top French comment on the current
> archive was by me, in French, as the DOC comment hadn't yet been posted
> at the time of my post --- presumably the verification email had not
> been clicked on yet, or something).
>
> Where are all those non-English speakers clamouring for new IDN gTLDs?
> Did those "fellows" do anything in their countries? Or were they just
> seat-fillers, so that ICANN's meetings don't appear empty as they have
> in the past, and to provide jobs and travel for unneeded ICANN staff?
>
> http://www.seeing-stars.com/Showbiz/SeatFillers.shtml
>
> Sincerely,
>
> George Kirikos
> http://www.leap.com/

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