Ed, On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Edward Morris <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Milton, > > > An exceptional series. Should be required reading. > > The question it brings to mind is why, given the lack of transparency and > accountability, anyone would want to be part of an ICANN supporting > organization. It's a question I think increasingly we all need to ask > ourselves individually. > There is no lack of accountability or transparency in the ASO. Don't paint all SOs with a broad brush. > You write about Steve Crocker. I was an academic member for about five years > of the International Trademark Association, the trademark lobby. Saw Steve a > few times at our meetings and conferences. The last one I was at was in > December 2011 in Dublin: > http://www.inta.org/Programs/Pages/2011EUInternet_Overview.aspx . I spoke to > Steve in the lobby, he came over the night before, was leaving the following > day... > > What was interesting to me was that Steve didn't come on as the 'keynote' > until 5:45 Friday afternoon, a few weeks before Christmas, the last speaker > of a one day conference. He had been in the hotel, in his room, all day.By > the time he came on to 'keynote', all but 10 to 15 of the participants had > left the conference and gone elsewhere. All of the tables in the conference > hall had been packed up and stored. Steve spoke for about 15 minutes, he had > 3 or 4 slides - one of a gas station from 1950's California - and he left. > It was the most unusual keynote address I've ever seen. He came all the way > from North America for that? Interesting. I've always wondered what type of > honoraria was involved - there may have been none, Dr. Crocker may have just > been doing free outreach..but questions. Well he was Chair of the Board since June 2011 and as such does get paid for his time. Probably not at a market rate however. I think that such innuendo is beneath this list. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel