[At-Large] The ALAC seat on the .MOBI policy advisory board

[John L]

When the .MOBI domain was set up, they established a policy advisory board 
to give them advice on managing the domain.  Along with the various 
industry people there's an NCUC seat currently held by Milt Mueller, a 
general user seat held by Vittorio, and an ALAC seat held by me.  (The 
differnence between the ALAC seat and the user seat is pretty vague, as I 
recall Vittorio and I originally flipped a coin to decide who'd be which 
one.)  The members are reappointed annually, so I'm asking the ALAC if 
they're willing to have me continue.

The PAB is a low-intensity operation.  We have a conference call every 
month or so, and the occasional meeting, sometimes at an ICANN meeting, 
sometimes not.  What I've done as the ALAC rep is to add requirements to 
.MOBI email to include the current best practices to discourage abuse and 
to allow more accurate spam filtering.  I have also, with less success, 
argued against ad-filled parked pages since for most users those are worth 
than useless, particularly on plans where you pay by the bit for each page 
you retrieve.

Unless someone else has a deep interest in mobile telephony, I'd be happy 
to stay on for another year.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
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