Jim Dixon wrote:
>
> Correction:
>
> Christopher Wilkinson has to the best of my knowledge never been a
> member of CORE.
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> At the same time he has also been a member of the gTLD MOU's Policy
> Advisory Committee (the POC) for the past year and a half. The POC
> sets policy for CORE.
Quite right. My error. I tend to confuse the members with the
direction, which isn't the same thing at all, is it?
> Wilkinson's position has been invaluable for the POC, ISOC, and CORE,
> of course. He has used European Commission facilities to advocate
> their policies, run meetings to introduce them to European business
> interests, and so forth.
And help set up and legitimize front organizations like Javier
Sola's European Internet Business Association?
> He has also been in a position to present
> POC/ISOC/CORE arguments to, for example, the US government as the
> position of the European Union
I wonder how many people in the USG, for example in the DOC, have
been fooled into believing that Christopher Wilkinson was speaking
for the European Internet?
> -- and to the European Commission and
> the representatives of the member states as fact.
Well, they seem to be becoming fact, but maybe that's because many
people believed that they already were so, thanks to Mr. Wilkinson's
helpful briefings.
> He is due to retire soon; many of us are awaiting his next career move
> with the greatest interest. ;-)
ICANN will perhaps create a position for "Vice President in Charge
of EC Liaison", at a modest salary of, say, $10,000/month, to reward
Mr. Wilkinson for his services.
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