Re: icann picks a government guy

[Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>]

Oh dear.

I can comment on these two folk, but unfortunately neither receives
a commendation of support.

Over the years I have found Mr Toomey to be devious, untrustworthy and 
deceitful.
At no stage has he been helpful or willing to listen, and his agendas have been
played out as power brokeing games. I have been comfortable keeping
a very very large distance from him. So I would summarize him as dishonest,
untrustworthy and a pain to deal with.

Chris Dispain on the other had is naive. He has been pushing hard
in the CC arena to attempt to bring the CCtlds into the ICANN fold.
Largely ineffectual. Not exactly a bright spark.

Frankly, given the choice between these two, I'd go for Donald Duck
every time.

Geoff





At 08:38 AM 3/9/2003 -0500, Scott  Bradner wrote:

> 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