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Lunch with the ALAC
Took an hour or so this afternoon for salads, cokes and coffee with the At Large Advisory Committee. Discussions ranged from the role of registries and registrars to transfers policy, the impact of registrar jurisdiction on users and much more.
It was time well-spent and, in my books, bodes well for the future policy direction and success of the At Large if they keep up the quality of thinking.
Now if I could just convince a few of them of the merits of my thoughts on spam control measures.
The head cold rages on. "Cold medicine" I asked the man behind the counter. I'm sure the answer was intelligible, but it wasn't a two way conversation. Sign language and double checking my purchases after the fact with the concierge worked much better than my Portugese.
See this post as it first appeared on the original site.
2 comments
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Sebastian Ricciardi, April 8, 2003
Ross,
It was a pleasure meeting you in RIO. Was an "instructing" meeting for me, since it was my first time in ICANN, and I just wanted to thank you for your time.
Regarding your thoughts on Spam, how do you expect ALAC to help on this matter ?
Regards,
Sebastian Ricciardi
Interim ALAC member
PLEASE NOTE : This message reflect a personal opinion. None of the others ALAC members nor the ALAC itself should be asociated with my comments.
Ross, April 8, 2003
Hey Sebastian - great to hear from you. I too enjoyed the introduction - the education was flowing in both directions. I'm afraid that my awareness of where the at-large effort is current at has been flagging as of late - the update was very useful and appreciated.
Regarding my comments about the spam - it was simply a passing comment. Thomas and Wendy weren't too keen on my proposal - something about it violating the end-to-end principle or some pesky little detail like that.
Thanks again for the note and hope to see you in Montreal!
-rwr