I am a new Board member, and this is my first blog entry, ever. As a new guy on the block (or maybe a recycled one, since I had been retired for four years before joining the Board), I just want to let you all know that the Board is much more active and deals with many more issues than might appear to be the case from the outside. Frankly, I don’t know how most of my colleagues who have full-time jobs find the time to keep up their Board activity. I was warned when I signed on to the Board that the learning curve would be steep, and that was no exaggeration. I am grateful to my colleagues for their patience and helping hands as I try to climb that precipice.
The Board members are enthusiastic about ICANN’s being more transparent, but it has not been all that easy to do so. I applaud Paul Levins, ICANN’s chief link to the public, for all that he has been doing to make ICANN’s activities more visible. And, he has just begun. Stay tuned.
As I look back at the Sao Paulo meeting in December, it is pretty much a blur, as it was while I was there. But, we have had several telephonic meetings of the Board and its committees since then, and lots of e-mails flying back and forth, so I hope to be able to make much more sense of everything in Lisbon. I hope to meet many more of you in person this March.
–SteveG
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Veni Markovski 02.20.07 at 5:19 am
Steve,
as for the time board members spent on ICANN issues, you may wish to read http://blog.veni.com/?p=59 . There is a full detailed description of the time each board member has to spend for ICANN. David Wodelet has confirmed my calculations, with one remark – that his percent is not 50, but 40 (which is understandable, having in mind English is his native language).
Jon 02.20.07 at 8:06 am
Are you going to do anything about RegisterFly.com? By their own admission they’ve lost a minimum of 75,000 domains for their customers in February alone. Yet, they still carry your accredidation.
Come on, step up to the challange and actually do something. This situation is making you look completely irrelevant.
Paul Levins 02.22.07 at 4:04 pm
Jon
The situation with RegisterFly.com is of concern. ICANN has taken action. We yesterday sent a letter to RegisterFly advising of a Notice of Breach of their Registry Accreditation Agreement (known as an RAA). They now have 15 days to ‘cure the breaches’ (to use the legal language). You can find the correspondence that ICANN has sent to RegisterFly under our correspondence section where we post all our inbound and outbound corespondence.
Paul Levins
Executive Officer
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