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Would-be Internet domain chief demands Privacy
11/03/2003
The man named on Friday as the leading candidate for the vacant ICANN hotseat, has an interesting personal perspective on domain names that is likely to raise serious questions about his suitability for the job.
Paul Twomey, an administrator with close links to the Clinton bureaucrat who established ICANN, Ira Magaziner, was cited by the Washington Post as the leading contender for the vacant ICANN CEO post that has been filled in recent years by giddy Silicon Valley dingbat (and occasional Earth-visitor) Esther Dyson, gravelly Net godfather Vint Cerf, and most recently by the accidental-CEO, Stuart Lynn, respectively.
So what, you suppose, kind of track record should a wannabee high priest of Internet Domain Naming bring to the job? It's anyone's guess.
In Dyson's case, she was the permanent and permanently vacant Silicon Valley networker who got the job largely out of name recognition. Her successor, Vint Cerf, had real technical credentials (as the co-author of TCP/IP) and Lynn, well, he played tennis with someone.
But Twomey's credentials look a lot less innocuous For here's a chap who tried to trademark the very word "privacy".
More details at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29711.html
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