>At 09:38 PM 1/4/00 -0500, Gordon Cook wrote:
> > I carry a lot of ICANN data around in my head and I am generally
> >pretty good at it. However my attention has been called to the fact
> >that I screwed up on my association with Patrick as an ICANN board
> >member. Following a few URL trails I see that he and Goeff Huston
> >were IETF nominees but that ETSI and W3C placed their folk on the
> >board and IETF would up with only Vint.
>
>For the record, there is a PSO in the middle of that. IETF, ETSI, ITU, and
>W3C (the members of the PSO) each nominated various and sundry for the
>three board seats alloted to the PSO, and nominees from ETSI, W3C, and IETF
>were selected. ITU was, er, displeased.
>
> >Wiping red face.....
>
>For all you talk about ICANN, if the PSO involvement escaped you, your face
>deserves to be red.
I am well aware of the PSO and that aspect did not escape me.....what
did escape me (in part i suppose because I was in nepal from oct 13
to nov 6 and totally off net from roughly the 18th of oct to november
3 (trekking near everest)) was that nomination by IETF of Cerf,
Falstrom and Huston was not tantamount to election.
please see http://cookreport.com/neptibalb.shtml
for short photo essay and satire (the masked dancing of the monks at
the tengboche monastery reminded me of ICANN).
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