Personal Attacks, Power, and the PAB

[Jay@Iperdome.com]

While preparing to speak at the recent DNS Conference
(http://www.itaa.org/dnsconf.htm), several people 
cautioned "If you see a red laser dot on your 
forehead, you should hit the dirt!"

That was a good laugh, or so I thought.

In light of the recent article by Brock Meeks of 
MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.com/news/wwwashington.asp),
one that does an excellent job of exploring the long 
range implications of the gTLD-MoU, someone secretly
forwarded the following internal PAB communication:

>Jay Fenello is waging a campaign on the Domain Policy List to bump the
>referenced piece of trash into the MSNBC Top Ten List.
>
>PAB members could do us all a service by going to the site and rating the
>Article "1" where it belongs.
>
>By the way . . . Fenello is "testing the waters" as permitted by a recent
>amendment to SEC Regulations, to decide whether or not to file an initial
>public offering.  The exemption on which he relies requires that the
>company list all of its officers and directors.  There's only one -- Fenello.
>Those persons' complete employment history must be supplied:  there's
>only one job, as Senior consultant/principal of "I.Q. Associates, Inc."  He
>hasn't indicated an address for the company of its state of incorporation;
>but a check of the ALLBIZ file in the Lexis database of American
>corporations turned up gornisht by this name.  The FBI may have decided
>that Fenello was too small a fry to bother with, but the SEC will not share
>that disinterest.

Around the same time I received this, and as independent 
confirmation that the above posting was distributed, PAB member 
Kevin J. Connolly responded to our "test-the-waters" with the 
following message:  "I am unable to evaluate your offering since 
you did not supply an address or even state of incorporation 
for IQ Associates.  Please rectify this omission."

As a PAB member and an attorney with Eaton & Van Winkle, I don't 
know if Kevin has broken any laws, but his fishing expedition 
would appear inappropriate at best.


Anyone who thinks that this debate is not about power and
control, ask yourself why the PAB is resorting to personal
attacks.

If they have consensus, if they have a stronger vision for
the Internet, if they are honest in what their goals are,
why are they resorting to personal attacks?

We've heard many times how "open" their process is and has
been.  But many have complained that their input has been 
rudely dismissed, ignored, or ridiculed.  Now, we can all 
see that these claims are valid.  Are these the people we 
want to govern the Internet for the next twenty years?


To answer Kevin's questions, I.Q. Associates is a trade name 
that I have done entrepreneurial and strategy consulting 
work through since 1994.  It was incorporated in 
Georgia in 1996, and it's address is:
        I.Q. Associates, Inc.
        1150 Lake Hearn Drive, Suite 200
        Atlanta, GA 30342
        404-250-3264

People wishing to know more about my background can
simply click on my name at: 
        http://www.iperdome.com/ttw.htm

[WARNING - Blantant self promotion follows :-]

Once Iperdome's response to the NOI is filed, my work
with Iperdome will be complete.  Assuming that things
go as expected, Iperdome will hire a professional 
manager to continue to grow the business.

Anyone wishing to benefit from the kind of strategy
that was used to propel Iperdome from concept to
Industry player in less than six months, please 
call the number above.


Regards,

Jay Fenello
President, Iperdome, Inc.  
404-250-3242  http://www.iperdome.com