Hello Ross, Thanks for your response.
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 12:24, Ross Wm. Rader wrote: > > Interesting to see TuCows supporting this group of > > candidates.. I'd be interested in finding out why? > Our primary belief is that registries must be run as a business that > support the needs of the registrant. Status as a national asset is > closely tied to that, but not the primary driver. What I mean is that > dotCA can be run as a national asset to the nth degree, but if it is not > attractive to consumers, the effort is for nought. There are lots of opinions about how to run a dotCA business, but if the basic mechanics of registering, transferring and owning a dotCA are a pain (and compared to a .com they are), many folks just aren't going to bother.. The mechanics with interfacing with CIRA are in my opinion the largest disincentive to owning a dotCA, followed shortly afterwords by the cost of ownership. CIRA seems to lack a certain level of technical competence. Javascript has some security concerns, some browsers don't have it enabled, and yet to vote in these elections you need to have javascript enabled. It also doesn't work with Netscape 4.76 as they haven't built it with accessibility in mind. Getting to the voting booth always seems to take more clicks and attention that should be required.. The participation rate must be pretty small.. These aren't OpenSRS issues, but I would hope that the new board would have the technical awareness to recognize > The list of candidates we support all stand for this. The CIRA board > should not and cannot become a refuge for lawyers and academics. It > needs to be populated by people with serious commercial, technical and > governmental experience in order that the namespace can truly be > relevant and useful for Canadians. The three listed in the TuCows supported http://www.ciraboard.ca/ IAN MACEACHERN RICHARD M. ANDERSON DENIS TANGUAY All seem to have business & marketing backgrounds. Denis is an engineer, but you can be an engineer without knowing how to turn on a computer. I believe that Richard's got experience with the Canadian Alliance, but I assume that he would have other government experience.. > If you follow the development of CIRA closely, I think that you will > find that as the composition of the board has evolved, so has the > direction and focus of the registry. The Webnames slate is largely a > step in the wrong direction, excepting Mr. Jeftovic. I haven't been monitoring the CIRA board, but would not agree with your assessment of Webname's slate.. Mike -- Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting, http://www.openconcept.ca Open Source Web Applications for Social Change New Site Launched: http://www.patmartin.org/ War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrows. ML King, Jr.
