Wampum

I'd invited Verisign and NeuStar and Minds+Machines to do a multi-vendor presentation to a special ISOC-NY meeting. It turned out that Verisign, NeuStar and M+M all decided that they had more to loose by opening the kimono to the inet sophisticates then by just making their pitch to the vendor management and contracts arm of the City Government.

So it was Gale Brewer speaking about a the tender from her perspective, as a Council member. She'd not seen or heard anything from DOITT, she'd been lobbied by two vendors and was unimpressed by either, strongly favors a non-profit, wants revenue, and wants the registry to make public government work better. Then I spent about an hour. CORE's proposal was followed by a video of Michael Palage as Tom
Lowenhaupt's ICANN adviser, followed by a video of Antony Van Couvering, followed by Tom Lowenhaupt.

Because of the weather, Ithaca airport was closed Saturday, but with a skype channel for video and audio, which was rebroadcast over some webtv channel, I was able to effectively present.

I'm on the video monitor, click on the permalink if its not in the frame on your sized monitor. Or not if you don't need to see what I look like. Jonah was a major contributor to my presentation, so we took breaks when he needed me.