He's a compromise candidate. But he is going to suffer from what every other president has suffered from. He will have to fight the beast while he continues the priest hood of ICANN. It's not a pretty sight.<br>
<br>Also - what appears to be an interesting reversal. He supports the JPA be continued. This is a major reversal in ICANN policy I welcome. The writing was on the wall. I think Beckstrom has a good sense of humor. His reasoning for favoring the continuation of the JPA "simply because the current ICANN setup is working out so well" shows us he has a sense of humor.<br>
<br><div style="text-align: left;">Beckstrom is the U.S. governments man on the inside. He's here to crack the whip. He may yet dismantle ICANN. Let's get real here - ICANN is a base of fools. Someone recently called them something short of a scam. Fools and national security don't go together,<br>
<br>anyway - thats my two cents.<br><br>regards<br>joe baptista<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:17 PM, JFC Morfin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jefsey@jefsey.com">jefsey@jefsey.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The choice of Rod Beckerstrom as an ICANN CEO made me to study carefully the conclusion of the book he coauthored "the starfish and the spider". This books teaches far more on Rod abilities than just branding him has ex-US cyberscurity.<br>
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Rod demonstrates an excellent command of the neteconomy in a decentralized money-profit oriented perspective, and of the new corporate format and start-up market (the product is the start-up). Moreover, he has also partly identified the way to domesticate Internet activists like this list. His predecessors did it intuitively. He has documented it (last chapters).<br>
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It will be tiring, boring, ... as usual to oppose ICANN; but may be will it be more demanding. Probably many will listen to him. A good choice to protect the status-quo.<br>
jfc<br>
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