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

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

Dr. Joe and all,

  Twomey was essentially a disaster.  He pretty much did to ICANN
what he did to Telstra his previous employeer.  Frankly, how he lasted
so long, was paid far more than he was worth, of for anyone heading up
a Non-profit corporation, and did so little to advance the movement of
the ICANN away from USG control and/or oversight.  In fact he was
along with Peter Dengate Thrush, are  predominantly responsible for
ICANN
still needing adult supervision by the USG.  A sad comentary indeed...

  I would have fired him two months after he took the Job.

Joe Baptista wrote:

> 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/
>
>      Regards,
>
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Regards,

Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 284k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln
"YES WE CAN!"  Barack ( Berry ) Obama

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is
very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
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Updated 1/26/04
CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS.
div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail
jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
My Phone: 214-244-4827