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<font face="Arial">McTim <font color="navy"><font size="2">- </font></font></font><big><big><big><font
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><big>Tim
McGinnis -</big> </span></big></big></big></font></big></big></big><font
face="Arial">is now a candidate for co-coordinator in the upcoming
election. Some information about him:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Currently, I am engaged in a variety of IG processes in Africa, and
globally. These include participation in such fora as AfriNIC (and
other RIRs), AfrICANN (and other ICANN lists), AfrISPA, IETF, ISOC,
LUG, Kictanet etc, etc ad infinitum.
I do consulting and training on Internet resource distribution, DNS
and routing issues, African Internet infrastructure, ICT4D, and IG.
Last week, for example, I gave a talk to an African ICT consumer
conference on IPv6, hopefully demystifying it. I spend a great deal
of my time on capacity building around IG issues in Africa.
Sometimes however, I get to stand on top of a shipping container to
point radios and VSATs to connect oil companies to the Internet, but
always with the caveat that they must let me connect local schools and
clinics using their infrastructure.
I’ve been a member of the IGC since 2005, like its processes and
charter, and am pedantic regarding following our rules. I developed
my affection for Internet bureaucracy while allocating IP blocks and
ASNs at the RIPE NCC. Before that I worked on the content side of
several dotcoms, and worked in social work and politics in Washington
DC. I’ve lived in six countries on 3 continents, but mostly, I live
online.
I’ve strong opinions about what the Internet is, what it should (and
should not) become. An important opinion I hold about the IGC is that
the beliefs of the co-coordinators must not interfere with the
administration of the work of the caucus.</pre>
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