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Re: [ga] ICANN Board unanimously approves .biz/.info/.org registry agreements by 13-0
1. The email comment was meant to lighten things up a little.
2. No one asked that you make us happy with your explanation. I only asked
you to please have one.
3. The other question was What is your definition of bottom up consensus in
regards to ICANN? Not sure why you would need the minutes from the last
board meeting to answer that one.
Chris McElroy aka NameCritic
http://www.articlecontentprovider.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Veni Markovski" <veni@xxxxxxxx>
To: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] ICANN Board unanimously approves .biz/.info/.org registry
agreements by 13-0
I wouldn't go as much as personal attorney. Common sense sometimes is
better. As for esimating the time - that's a different story.
Someone (forgot who, and don't want to waste time going back) said he or
she writes 400 e-mails a day. I can also write hundreds of meaningless
e-mails (as I have showed in this list from time to time, when I want to
have a rest). The point is that e-mail correspondence within the Board is
important. Often it comes with file attached, hundreds of pages, that we
need to read. Some of my native-English speakers said they spent on
average 3-4 minutes. That's fine with me. If the correspondence was in
Bulgarian, I'd have spent probably half the time, but they would have had
to spend all of their lives :)
So, it's not just going through a message like yours, for exmaples - 4
lines, plus one line quote. It's going via messages, who are written by
quite skilled in technology people, trying to understand it, read
comments, communications to the Board, mailing lists (that's why I get
irritated by silly messages on this list, which are underestimating the
intelligence of the readers, and the authors), etc., etc.
I will be sending later more information on the questions that bother so
much some of the folks here, as soon as I see the transcripts from the
Friday board meeting online; however do you want to bet that these folks
will not be happy at all to read what I think?
veni
At 02:46 PM 12.12.2006 '?.' -0800, Karl Auerbach wrote:
Veni Markovski wrote:
I have information from at least one other (current) director that his
time calculations are very close to mine.
During my own term, one of the directors estimated that it cost him
$300,000(US)/year in lost revenue to serve.
From my own experience I would say that that estimate is too low.
And I generally spent in excess of 60 hours/week on ICANN stuff on top of
a full time job.
Any person who is thinking of being on ICANN's board should hire his/her
own personal attorney and get real advice about the risks, the duties, and
the obligations.
--karl--
Sincerely,
Veni Markovski
http://www.veni.com
check also my blog:
http://blog.veni.com
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