Re: icann picks a government guy

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>]

In message <5.1.0.14.2.20030310110601.00b80450@kahuna.telstra.net>, Geoff Husto
n writes:
>At 03:58 PM 3/9/2003 -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
>> >> 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.
>> > so he'll be an excellent icann exec dir, fit right in, character
>> > cast.
>>
>>whoops!  wait a sec.  he also needs to be clueless as to how the
>>internet actually works and operates.
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>I believe he is qualified as you describe. Stunningly so.
>

Ah -- from your earlier description, I thought the two of them had 
agreed to split the role, with Dispain handling the cluelessness part.
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