Robin: have you contacted Geist yet? if not, let me know if there's any thing I can do to help out in getting him to decide. regards Robert on 4/27/06 9:53 AM Carlos Afonso said the following: > Marilyn Cade, the chief lobbyist for the right wing DRM+IPR juggernaut > (the Axis, as Robin calls them), wants Michael Palage's seat. > > She has quit the NomCom to run for the Board. There is a possibility the > GNSO council might block this on the grounds she was on the NomCom and I > guess there must be a sort of "grace period" (at least ethically > speaking) before she runs for the Board. > > Bad news, anyway. We need support for Michael, but in desperation we > might have to support Tonkin in the event of his candidacy if Michael's > does not float. > > frt rgds > > --c.a. > -- Robert Guerra <[log in to unmask]> Managing Director, Privaterra Tel +1 416 893 0377 Fax +1 416 893 0374