[ga] Twomey Twomey bye bye, VeriSign ICANN: be afraid, competitive procurement might be coming

[Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Twomey Twomey bye bye, soon ICANN's gonna cry.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Jeffrey A. Williams
<jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
>  Yes, and this is a good thing as well as perhaps being one of the
> reasons Mr.Twomey has as of 03/02/09 announced his resignation
> as CEO of ICANN.


I was wondering when someone would mention that in the public forum.  Being
someone who knows all the parties involved - more or less - it looks like
the BWG insiders have won control of the executive day to day function.
Thats what Twomeys parting words said to me.  It's either go or be sacked.

Now mind you I think Twomey did an excellent job at ICANN.  Lot's of
activity but no real movement on anything.  Twomey, in the finest traditions
of a civil servant from the British stled civil service government run by
decedents of former prisoners, Australia, has turned ICANN into a
bureaucracy of enormous proportions.  If what you want is a root bureaucracy
then ICANN is at the top of the heap in that department.

Incidentally - I don't.

But his leaving is a strong indicator the BWG sisterhood is getting it's
teeth into ICANN.  The Obama victory was the death knell to ICANN Twomey
robots.

Whoever becomes president is in serious trouble.  He will have to hit the
floor running into the political and diplomatic nightmare that is ICANN.

ICANN the bureaucratic nightmare Twomey built has left him battered, battle
weary and impotent. He's been under a lot of stress. You can hear it in his
voice when he announced his resignation at the meeting.  Brought tears of
joy and much laughter to yours truly.  The announcement almost sounded like
a resigned apology and the admitting of failure.

Whoever inherits this bomb has to be careful.

I hope the next president is well informed of the issues.  Now that ICANN is
a bureaucracy the next president may be deceived.  But if he's bright and
has a good understanding of the history here, then he'll be ok.

If they end up replacing Twomey with an idiot, i.e. bright executive - with
no understanding of the history or technical issues - then i'll expect the
next CEO will make a good scpe goat for the upcoming ICANN follies.

regards
joe baptista


Of course as ICANN's costs due largely to
> lack of reasonable fiscal constraint/common sense, given the executive
> and some staff salaries, amongst other costs such as the registration fees
> for "Consideration" of prepared proposal for a new gTLD without the
> possibility of those fees if rejected, being returned.  That's bilking by
> any
> definition I cam possibly consider as comparable.
>
>  Hell, INEgroup can take over for ICANN and all it's operations for
>  1/3 or less of what ICANN has been charging.  Of course nearly
> all of the other Sr. Staff would have to agree to take a significant
> salary hair cut on up to 3/4's of what they are recieving now, and several
> key current Sr. Staff would be dismissed immediately as well as Westlakes
> contract terminated but they( Westlake) would have the opertunity to be
> reconsidered pending a brief negotiation time table.  All their in progress
> work would be temporarly haulted pending review as well is we were to
> take over for ICANN.  Multipul root structures would be back on the
> table for serious consideration as well.
>
> George Kirikos wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > In light of the NTIA/DOJ letter strongly suggesting how competitive
> procurement should take place, to lower costs for consumers, I am encouraged
> by today's directive by the US government regarding contracting procedures:
> >
> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090304/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_waste
> >
> > "Those new rules, officials said, would make it more difficult for
> contractors to bilk taxpayers and make some half-trillion dollars in federal
> contracts each year more accessible to independent contractors."
> >
> > "Obama will say that his administration will stop outsourcing to private
> contractors many services that should be performed by government employees.
> He also pledged to open contracts to small businesses and eliminate
> "unnecessary" no-bid contracts that allow preferred contractors to take
> assignments even though they might not be the least expensive option."
> >
> > Obviously, the services provided by both VeriSign and ICANN can be
> performed much less expensively by either in-house government employees or
> by competitive tenders. Just like Neustar won the .us contract, VeriSign
> should have to compete to provide .com/net registry services, as should PIR
> (who have raised prices substantially) for .org.
> >
> > It's clear that for any new gTLDs that the community agrees should be
> added to the root, that there should be a tender process to see who would
> perform that at the lowest cost. This is the exact opposite of how ICANN
> wishes to manage things, auctioning off the new TLDs to the highest bidder
> to maximize its own benefit (at the expense of consumers). ICANN has
> demonstrated they are not the "least expensive option", as not only is their
> budget out of control:
> >
> >
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090105_icann_for_profit_companies_comparables/
> >
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090203_icann_blows_46_million_stock_market/
> >
> > but they actively propose to raise business and consumers costs through
> ill-conceived programs like the new gTLDs boondoggle.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > George Kirikos
> > http://www.leap.com/
>
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