Re: [ICANN-EU] Tabellenstand Nominierung / Ranks in Nomination

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

"Andreas Fügner" <Andreas.Fuegner@lizenz.com> writes:

> As much as I can agree with many of Lutz Donnerhacke`s opinions,
> working for an ISP does not exactly qualify as being independent.

On the other hand, without working for some kind of ISP, it's hard
to get the necessary expertise in the field.  You can get it by
consulting here and there, sure, but being self-employed doesn't
make you more independent of the industry automatically.  And if you
don't work in the ISP sector, you might not be independent of other
influences either.  For example, someone might advocate keeping the
current practice of domain name conflict resolution for new TLDs
because this procedure will guarantee an increasing amount of work for
trademark lawyers in the future.

Finally, Lutz's employer can hardly be considered one of German's
largest ISPs. ;-) Perhaps Lutz could elaborate on their interests in
DNS affairs.  I don't think IKS Jena is interested in DNS issues as
much as large ISPs are.  Judging by the things I've heard, they don't
sell domain names, but solutions to people's problems.

> It takes a lot of trust to send into the board yet another member
> and owner out of the industry as a delegate of the users.

Lutz is certainly not speaking for the industry.  Read his comments
here.  Do you really think this is the position of the industry?