icann picks a government guy

[Scott Bradner <sob@harvard.edu>]

its not on the ICANN web site yet but the washington post reports that 
ICANN picked ex-Australian government official Paul Twomey to be its new
CEO.

the post story is not quite accurate 
  ICANN's role as administrator of the domain-name system (DNS) puts it at the
  heart of many important decisions impacting users worldwide, with authority
  to decide which Internet domains (such as  dot-com, dot-org and dot-net)
  exist, who can sell those addresses and how much it costs to buy them.   

(ICANN does not say how much domains cost)

the post reports that the search committee is trying to work out a 
deal with Twomey but if they can not the falback is Sustralian Chris Disspain
operator of .au.

I do not have any idea what this means for the relationship between 
the IETF and ICANN over the IETF-IANA function.

Maybe Geoff can comment on these two folk.

Scott