[icann-eu] Nominating Spaf for the Study Committee?

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>]

This is an idea I have been contemplating for some time now, and I
guess I should finally go public with it.

How about nominating Spaf (Gene Spafford, see
<http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/homes/spaf/>) for the Study Committee,
and possibly its chair?

For those who don't know anything about Prof. Eugene Spafford, let
me quote <http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/homes/spaf/activities.html>:

	Spaf's involvement in guiding the Usenet

	For 11 years, I updated the newusers postings and posted
	them to the net. I was the person who "created" the Usenet
	backbone concept (and thus the Usenet Cabal), helped design
	the current naming structure of Usenet, answered thousands
	of newbie questions, and many other activities. In 1993, I
	retired from the task.

More recently, Spafford has been interested in information security
and related topics.  Looking at my book-shelf, there's a quite
interesting and highly recommended O'Reilly book named "Practical
Unix & Internet Security" co-authored by him (together with Simson
Garfinkel, who, among other things, wrote "Database Nation", another
book recommended for reading).  Additionally, Spaf has been the
Chair of ACM's US Public Policy Committee since fall 1999.

Please note that I neither know Spaf personally, nor have asked him,
nor do know anything about his opinion on the at large membership,
ICANN as a whole, or any related issues.  I am, however, quite sure
that he is (1) an independent mind, (2) will have a public standing
sufficient to give the study's results the weight they deserve, and
(3) has the necessary experience with the net.society.


I won't start collecting signatures on this idea, but I'd really
like to hear your opinions on this.  I'm CCing Mike Roberts and
Andrew McLaughlin; please keep them in your reply's headers.

-- 
Thomas Roessler                         <roessler@does-not-exist.org>