Re: [ga] ICANN Board unanimously approves .biz/.info/.org registry agreements by 13-0

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Veni and all,

  Again for the record Veni, I am always interested what you may
think on any ICANN related issue, even though I may strongly
disagree with you on some or many of your positions or ideas.
Same goes for any ICANN Bod or staff member, registry official,
or registrar official and any and all stakeholders/registrants.

  I will also admit usually I am in favor of the stakeholders/registrants
positions on most ICANN or ICANN related issues.  For me,
and all of our members, the consumer and/or stakeholders/registrants
are king.

Veni Markovski wrote:

> 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

Regards,

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