Re: The Price Of Admission. Unacceptable.

[Jim Dixon <jdd@matthew.uk1.vbc.net>]

On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, John Charles Broomfield wrote:

> >   The key term here is "Probably".  That has not been done yet.
> > I will believe that when I see it.  In addition Nominet's board was
> > selected by members of the ISP's and RIPE users and members in a vote
> > of all, not just a select few.  So, yes I stand by this statment.
> 
> I was pretty sure that only nominet members could vote for who goes in place
> at the nominet board of directors (which doesn't mean that only nominet
> members can be on the board of directors, but that would be internal to
> nominet). Could somebody from nominet please confirm what Jeff is saying (ie
> that it's ISP's and RIPE users and members that vote for the nominet board),
> which to me sounds a tad strange to say the least.

He is confused.  The members of Nominet vote.  They chose to put 
someone from RIPE on the Nominet board; they also chose to put
the chairman of the LINX (the London peering point) on the Nominet
board.  

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