IANA Appointments to the POC (fwd)

[Sascha Ignjatovic <sascha@isoc.vienna.org>]

so "mr.not this mou"  hier you got new work

now you can start again the wholle thing from the beginning 

they will be new poc members and you have to start the wholle process 
of convincing them again :-)
(instad of having your proposals formalized tru one of the
 formal binding instruments available at the moment)

good luck :-) 

sascha

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 21:23:18 -0700
From: Jon Postel <postel@ISI.EDU>
To: ietf@ietf.org
Cc: postel@ISI.EDU, iana@ISI.EDU
Subject: IANA Appointments to the POC



IANA Appointments to the POC
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The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) announces the
appointment of Glenn Kowack and Willie Black to the Policy Oversight
Committee (POC).

The POC is the key committee in the evolving development of the
generic top level domain names (gTLDs) following the guidelines of the
plan developed by the International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC) and
embodied in the gTLD-MoU.

Under the terms of the gTLD-MoU, now signed by about 150
organizations, the IANA is to appoint two people to the POC, one for a
one year term and the other for a three year term.

The IANA hereby appoints Willie Black to the one year term, and Glenn
Kowack to the three year term.

Appointees to the POC are serve as individuals, not as representatives
of organizations, and are charged with making plans and taking
decisions in their understanding of the best interests of the Internet
community.

~~~~~

The IANA would like to thank Dave Crocker and Perry Metzger for their
service on the the IAHC and the interim POC.  The effort contributed
has gone far beyond that initially anticipated when Dave and Perry
agreed to serve on the IAHC (for a few months) about a year ago.  The
IAHC has provided a tremendous public service under difficult
conditions.

~~~~~

Biography - Dr Willie Black, managing director, Nominet UK

With a degree and doctorate in mathematics, William Black has been
involved with computer networking since the mid-1970s.  He has chaired
several national and international committees dealing with various
communications standards over the years.  In 1991 he became head of
the team operating the extensive Joint Academic Network (JANET) in the
UK.  In 1994 he was appointed program director of the United Kingdom
Academic and Research Networking Association (UKERNA), a
not-for-profit company which was formed to take over the running of
the JANET.  In this role, he took over the managership of the .UK top
level domain, coordinating the work of several volunteers from the
UK's flourishing internet industry.  Having identified the need to put
the management of the .UK TLD on a more sound and commercial footing,
he left UKERNA in 1996 to form Nominet UK, the national registry for
all Internet domain names ending .UK and also a not-for-profit
company.

Dr Black joins the POC fully supporting the trustee roles planned for
managing the DNS globally whilst at the same time opening up
competition as widely as possible for registration and other internet
services.  He believes that the Nominet UK model is a good basis for
the international planning.  He has, however, in the past expressed
some concerns over details of the plans, and will continue to
contribute positively to their development.

~~~~

Biography, Glenn Kowack

Glenn Kowack has been involved in the Internet industry since the late
1970s, first as a software engineer, and later as a manager.  Today he
is president of Internet Enterprise Development, a consultancy, and
works in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. He has degrees in
mathematics and computer science, and experimental psychology, from
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

He is a member of the board of directors of the Commercial Internet
eXchange (CIX), the trade association for internet service providers,
on the board of CompassWare Development Limited, which develops and
markets search technology products, and director of European sales for
iPass, Inc.

During the first half of the decade he was managing director of EUnet,
which he developed into Europe's first multi-national commercial
internet service provider, and also a member of the EBONE (European
Backbone) Management Committee.  Prior to that he was senior director
at Gould Computer Systems in charge of UNIX and related networking
development.

Earlier this year, he published an article, "Internet Governance and
the Emergence of Global Civil Society", in IEEE Communications.  There
he argued for the importance of global internet institutions based
upon civil society and competitive open-market mechanisms.

~~~~~

References:

gTLD-MoU - http://www.gtld-mou.org/

IANA     - http://www.iana.org/iana/

NOMINET  - http://www.nominet.org.uk/

CIX      - http://www.cix.org/

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