[NANOG] [Nanog] attempt to capture nominet board

Thu Apr 24 14:16:48 UTC 2008

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 03:01:31PM +0100, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> Yes strongly agreed and Randy thanks for raising this here.

as i recall, CIRA, the Canadian equivilent of Nominet, a few years ago, made
some serious changes to its structure/by-laws/etc in order to prevent/reduce
the possibility of a similar "take-over".

other registries might want to take note.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Bush <randy at psg.com>
> Sent: 24 April 2008 11:30
> To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog at merit.edu>
> Subject: [Nanog] attempt to capture nominet board
> 
> dear uk sisters, brothers, and undecideds,
> 
> if you are a nomintet voting member or know someone who is, i strongly
> encourage you to read these two documents,
> <http://www.nominet.org.uk/governance/board/election/> and particularly
> <http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/28780_call_to_action_letter_web.pdf>,
> and to vote the candidates running against the greedy domainer slime
> trying to capture nominet.
> 
> thanks for listening.
> 
> randy
> 
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