Re: IAHC 'business' composition

[Ivan Pope <ivan@webmedia.com>]

Dave Crocker wrote:
>
>	Half of the committee comes from the Internet community and more
>than half of the committee are strongly tied to business activity.  Two are
>hands on for Internet operations and two are real, real close.  Speaking
>for myself I will note that my income is exclusively from the commercial
>sector, pertaining to products and service, and covers a wide range of
>clients, including Internet service.  (I happen also to head a non-profit
>ISP run as a Silicon Valley public service.)  So when someone expresses
>concern that large and small business are not adequately represented, I'm
>having some trouble figuring out what would suffice.

Below I have paraphrased the members of the IAHC (available at
http://www.isoc.org/whatsnew/iahcmembers.html) and prefaced each one with
their speciality subject. I hope I have done this fairly, but you can go
and read this yourself. There are FOUR people who are primarily Law
specialists or lawyers; FIVE who are technical experts and TWO who are
indeterminate or who seem to come from GOVT type institutionalised bodies.
Now, I may have some of this wrong, and you could slot some of these people
into different slots.
My point is clear however: there is no-one on the committee who is there
because they have started or are running an Internet business pure and
simple. I suppose what I mean would be the people who are entrepreneurs,
who have taken the raw materials that the Internet offers and grafted a
business on top of it. The sort of people who will understand the
implications of these deliberations for the businesses that they have
fought to establish. The sort of people who have not spent their working
lives in committees and technical standards meetings, but in building a
business.

I'm not against any of the people on the panel. It looks to me like a lot
of quality expertise is there. It just seems terribly unbalanced towards
the great and the good of the Internet and International body reps and
completely uninterested in the implications for the entrepreneur end of the
spectrum. And, it is and will continue to be the entreprenuers who drive
this thing.
Ivan

IAHC Committee

LAW: Sally M. Abel, [Lawyer] ...  will represent International Trademark
Association (INTA) organization on the IAHC.

TECH: Dave Crocker, [Technical expert] ... about the Internet, email,
electronic commerce, Internet operation and theInternet standards process.
Co-founder of ... an industry trade association.

TECH: Geoff Huston [Technical manager] ... formerly technical manager.

LAW: David W. Maher, [Lawyer] ... registered patent attorney, experience in
intellectual property and entertainment law.

TECH: Perry E. Metzger [President of Technical Consultancy] ...
specializing in communications and computer systems security.

TECH: Jun Murai [Associate professor] ... Faculty of Environmental
Information. Developed Japan's first UUCP network and Japan's first IP
network.

TECH: Hank Nussbacher, [Independent networking consultant] ... currently
works with IBM Israel as Internet Technology Manager ... has been
responsible for all aspects in establishing IBM Israel as a major ISP in
Israel.

???: Robert Shaw [Advisor at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)]

GOVT: George Strawn [with NSF] ... involved with the NSF's Internet
activities for the last five years and also co-chairs ... a US government
committee coordinating inter-agency Internet activities, including funding
for administrative activities, such as the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority (IANA).

LAW: Albert Tramposch [Legal counsellor at the World Intellectual Property
Organization]...  which has responsibility for the promotion of the
protection of intellectual property throughout the world.

LAW: Stuart Levi [Lawyer] ... head of the firm's Computer and Information
Technology Practice, will serve as outside counsel supporting the IAHC.

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