[registrars] Budget Committee Nominations

["Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe that the nominations for the budget committee election closes 
today. Two important items that need attention;
1) If your name is;

- Tom Barrett;
- Paul Westley;
- Sig Solares, or;
- Mark Jeftovic

and you would like to represent registrar interests on this important 
committee, then please acccept your nomination. I firmly believe that 
each of you would be excellent representatives.

2) If you would like to support one or all of these candidates, then 
please make your endorsements heard.

Side-note...

I am personally frustrated by the seemingly endless increases in the 
fees that registrars must pay and also by what seems to be a lack of new 
participants from our constituency on these types of committees. I 
really believe that we need some fresh ideas at the budget table in 
order to ensure that the fees that registrars pay are appropriate and 
well utilized.
-rwr
on behalf of me...


The following is my original nomination of these candidates...


> ...I'd also like to make the following
> nominations;
>
> - Tom Barret, Encira. Tom is a business man that has been around the 
> domains racket for a long time. I think he'd do well for us.
> - Paul Westley, Internetters. He is our treasurer after all. If we can't 
> trust him to look after our interests with the budget then we've got 
> bigger problems ;) Paul would be a great addition to the committee.
> - Sigmund Solares, Intercosmos/DirectNIC. Sig may be quiet, but he's one 
> of the smartest entrepreneurs that I know. If anyone could extract 
> concessions from the budget process, it would be him. Sig seriously 
> deserves our considerations.
> - Mark Jeftovic, EasyDNS. Mark knows how to run a small business. ICANN 
> would do well to watch smaller players like Mark as ICANN grows its own 
> business. Mark sits on the Board of CIRA and the Whois Steering 
> Committee - he'd do a great job for us as well.
> - Bhavin Turakhia, Directi. Bhavin is outspoken on a lot of issues but 
> never gets the chance to step up to the plate in an official capacity. 
> I'd love to see him take a crack at the budget and think that he would 
> do a great job for us.
> Two points I'd like to make - 1) I haven't talked to any of these 
> nominee's, so I'm not sure if any or all of them will accept the 
> nomination - they should, they'd all be great. 2) The constituency 
> membership deserves more input from a broader set of members. The same 
> people run time and time again and while they do a reasonable job, we 
> need a broader voice in order to get a better result. I really hope that 
> people take this into account when they cast their ballots.
> And now, I'm going back to my vacation ;)
>
> Have a good holiday everyone!
--

                       -rwr








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