Re: [ga] [Fwd: Re: Susan Crawford :::: a reason to give it anothergo??

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

Eric and all,

  I am not sure how your remarks are largely relevant to my forward
of my comments and remarks to Susan's appointment to Barracks
staff which I made to Seth and shared with the GA.

  Further specific comments and remarks interspersed below.

Hugh Dierker wrote:

>
> Friends and enemies,  (I kind of like that twist in this era of open
  dialog and getting along. Now I can really get up at a lunch and
  nonchalantly introduce as such; These are my friends Bill and Ike, and
  this is my good enemy Jeff)

  I find it difficult how you Eric could characterize me as you
  enemy. Obama through Crawford and her well educated, well experienced,
  extremely bright and caring people will bring more light onto/into
  ICANN. And I must say that if people came and looked at the releases
  and statements of ICANN in a frozen point in time, now, it would
  really look "on paper" like they are really trying to do an O' grass
  roots renovation.

  Susan is indeed very bright, but is and has been largely based in
  academics
  and as such out of touch with the real world as she has little recent
  real
  world experiance, and I don't count ICANN as real world.
   Of course on closer reading they would see external Social (Danny)
  and Financial (George) audits that would make Madoff look cleaner than
  Vint or our Melbourne interloper ever did.

    ICANN has been acting sense it's very beginning too much like a
  academic exercise, and too little like a non-profit.  That in an of
  itself
  does not and clearly has not lent itself to being a very positive
  organization.
  Social aspects of the Internet are important but are actually outside
  the
  scope of ICANN's responsibility and MOU mandate.   But this is only
  going to get bigger:
  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090326/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_online

  I largely, along with many of our members, agree with Baracks answers
  and remarks in his observations, but there are a few areas where we
  disagree. Now,,, if the GA were to organize and present united and
  divided position papers on relevant issues de jour, I dare say they
  would catch an ear, perhaps an eye and quite possibly someones
  attention. But as always Domain name marketeers and egotistical
  engineers will probably muck or muckrake it up.

  Position papers on what exactly?  As the Chair, you have made precious

  few if any suggestions.  Hence such papers as you suggest have not
  been officially forthcoming.  I also see again that you distaste for
  professional engineers remains, and as such impeads progress from
  within the GA.  Domain Names should have never been treated as
  a comodity.  As such that they were and still are, the impact on
  several
  less than advantagious fronts has been nearly disastorous, yet as a
  part time marketeer myself, I have no truk with ethical marketing,
  and/or marketeering. Certainly due to the abundant proof of other
  methodologies failures, new constituencies and ALAC, an organized GA
  is worth another (yes yet another) revisit.

  Perhaps.  But only if openess and transparency are absolute.

  --- On Mon, 3/23/09, Jeffrey A. Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  wrote:

       From: Jeffrey A. Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
       Subject: [ga] [Fwd: Re: [A2k] Obama Taps(?) Susan Crawford
       and Kevin Werbach]
       To: "Ga" <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
       Date: Monday, March 23, 2009, 6:56 PM


       All,

         As an FYI

       -------- Original Message --------
       Subject: Re: [A2k] Obama Taps(?) Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach
       Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:55:33 -0700
       From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
       Organization: IDNS and Spokesman for INEGroup
       To: seth.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
       CC: ecommerce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, A2K@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,Cheryl
       Preston <prestonc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
       References: <48804AFB.5E3A3E4B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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       <49C92355.57E8649C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

       Seth and all,

         I wish I could joint you in your enthusiasm.  But unfortunately
       I cannot.  Yet it is mildly good to see Susan move on and into
       a better position that can have a significant impact.  ICANN
       is still after 10 years part of which Susan served, is a mess
       and getting worse.  So her impact while at ICANN was relatively
       not apparent in a positive direction.

       Seth Johnson wrote:

       > (Some of the best news I've heard yet from this administration, though
       > not quite official yet.  -- Seth)
       >
       > >
       
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/03/onewebday-founder-tapped-by-ob.php
       >
       > OneWebDay Founder Tapped By Obama
       >
       > Monday, March 23, 2009
       >
       > Internet law expert Susan Crawford has joined President Barack Obama's
       > lineup of tech policy experts at the White House, according to several
       > sources. She will likely hold the title of special assistant to the
       > president for science, technology, and innovation policy, they said.
       > Crawford, who was most recently a visiting professor at the University
       > of Michigan and at Yale Law School, was tapped by Obama's transition
       > team in November to co-chair its FCC review process with University of
       > Pennsylvania professor Kevin Werbach. Her official administration
       > appointment has not been formally announced. Crawford may be best
       > known for her work with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
       > and Numbers, the California-based nonprofit group that manages the
       > Internet address system. She served on ICANN's board for three years
       > beginning in December 2005. She also founded OneWebDay, a global Earth
       > Day for the Internet that takes place every Sept. 22. Crawford, a Yale
       > graduate, clerked for U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie before
       > joining Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering where she worked until the end of
       > 2002.
       >
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