Hi Swerve, I don't think Joe ever worked for ICANN as an employee. He was their outside legal counsel working for the law firm Jones/Day. They have an "impressive" client list ;) (www.jonesday.com) Am I on the right list? It's starting to sound like the GNSO list ;-)
Cheers, James -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Swerve Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 5:27 PM To: Paul Gordon; discuss Subject: Re: Opensrs management and Verisign/Icann Thanks, Paul. What was his job title at the time? does he still work for Icann? tx, Swerve At 4:07 PM -0500 10/21/03, Paul Gordon wrote: >On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 01:31 PM, Swerve wrote: > >>I wonder who at Icann was responsible for this outrageous event during >>the negotiations? >> >Joe Sims. > >The first contract he had them sign was so bad (for ICANN) that they >had to re-do it (which is why Verisign got to pick the terms and >ICANN couldn't do a thing about it. > >You would think that Joe Sims would have been given the boot when >that happened, but, no, he actually got to draft the REPLACEMENT >contract as well. And got paid BOTH TIMES. --
