Gordon and all,
I don't see anything wrong with Rick White running for a seat on the
ICANN board. I would not support him, but he does have the right to
throw his hat in the ring.
Gordon Cook wrote:
> I have just heard a very disturbing rumor from a very credible
> source. Former Washington state Congressman Rick White is believed
> to be running for a seat on the ICANN Board representing the Domain
> Name Supporting Organization.
>
> White, an attorney with Perkins Koie (Coie?) was elected to Congress
> in 1994 as a foot soldier to Newt Gingrich. Remember that other Newt
> foot soldier Esther Dyson who joined....what was it called? The Peace
> Progress and Freedom Foundation about that time? Remember Newt
> wanting a lap top for every school kid in the USA? You can bet that
> the Information Technology Association of America was salivating at
> that prospect of that one. (Jon Englund is now ICANN's man inside
> the ITAA.)
>
> White ran on a very conservative family values platform in 1994,
> re-elected in 96 and shortly there after had a nasty divorce and
> married a legislative aid and lost the last election. But in the
> meantime during his congressional stint he stood up and tried to take
> credit for the 1996 telecom reform act. "It's a good bill; its a
> fair bill; it's the best we could do...." he said. Reminds me of
> Icann. But 3 years ago my friend Jeff Michka awarded him the grand
> gaggie for 1996 for the most disingenous statement of the season on
> a telecom matter -- if memory serves me right.
>
> Now White hearing the Internet's siren song went straight for the
> Congressional Internet Caucus and became its Chair. Then last fall
> he lost. Back to Seattle and Bainbridge Island and to doing what you
> do when you lose your seat. Becoming a lobbyist. And my friend in
> late July or early August 99 turns on C-span 2 and there's Rick
> White, an attorney leading a discussion on the importance of the
> Internet with the congressional Internet caucus. What was that all
> about he wondered?
>
> Well, now if the rumor I have heard is correct, we know.
>
> ICANN has taken some real congressional flak this summer. It needs a
> nice Mr Fixer to channel big corporate assurances that estee and the
> captin mike and vint and john really have the best interests of the
> internet at heart.
>
> Rick White would be a superb candidate for the corporate interests
> who want to establish their regulatory control over the internet and
> their ownership of our domain names and now realize they don't have
> their congressional flanks covered. This is control over the
> internet, over the future of telecommuncations and over the ground
> rules for electronic commerce at stake. Vast sums of money, vast
> power. Rick's services as ICANN shill to placate congress and lull
> it to sleep --- what a jewell. What a LOVELY idea. Ah yes Rick
> White for DNSO board member. Teamed with Jon Englund and ITAA, he'll
> make sure that the door to Congressional redress is closed
>
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