Not silly at all - in fact very astute. There are a range of political sensitivities surrounding what ICANN should and should not do, in particular surrounding country code top-level domains.

Those sensitivities are beginning to be addressed as people learn to start working with one another and the power struggles over the Net start sliding into the background.

There are in fact lots of organisations that are working toward promoting their own country’s Net domains but there is often a terrible lack of communication between them. ICANN can play a role in this by acting as the meeting spot and co-ordinator between these groups.

That is part of what I will be trying to do - just get people into meetings (offline and on) and make the introductions and then hopefully the rest will take care of itself.

If you want to know more you could come to ICANN’s Lisbon meeting at the end of this month, or if that’s not possible, follow events online through the participation website at http://public.icann.org/.

Kieren

sorry if the questions seems very silly. I do not know much about Icann and I wish all people should be aware of all the extensions (cctld, gtld, and other third level domains) and be benefited.

Welcome to Washington Baby!

I want to be a friend, so I’ll just say: “I told you so” now (to cover your ass),
so after the fact, we need not mention it.

Cheers Kieren, best of luck in your new capacity.

So you’re suggesting that my first job be to go around the ICANN offices sticking a microphone under people’s noses and insist that they justify their existence?

If my job title was “general manager of staff intimidation” I might well agree with you, but I think I will stick with slightly more effective and less aggressive methods of persuasion if you don’t mind.

Kieren

Your line of questioning should be to the point:

What do you have to gain by working for ICANN?
What do you have to offer ICANN (The Public via ICANN)?
What does the Public have to gain from your relationship with ICANN?
What are ‘Your’ ambitions for the Internet?
What will the Internet look like when you’re done with ICANN?

Publish a list (Report) of those whom are non-compliant (no-comment), in particularly ICANN Officials.
That’s transparency, that’s up front. They can then ‘spin-it’ for themselves.
That’s what you should do. That’s a good start, by covering your own ass.

But I am sure I reviewed the book and linked to others that had reviewed the book, and reviewed the reviews of the book.

I do keep an eye out for Blair but he’s not done all that much of significance for the past year or so.

Kieren

The issues are foremost, and will inevitably lead to public involvement if they are raised across a wide range of media, not just the electronic.

Good luck, Kieren!

Have added it as an option.

Kieren