Comments on: ICANN has Rod Beckstrom as new president and CEO?

By: peterthoeny

peterthoeny — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:19:35 +0000

Some facts: As stated elsewhere, we are inviting all contributors to participate on twiki.org http://bit.ly/CMdKv - also those who left for the fork. We streamlined the TWiki governance structure in Oct 2008 to scale the TWiki community (work in progress) and to clean up twiki.org to be a friendly place with clearly defined community processes and governance model (goal accomplished): http://bit.ly/6o2e and http://bit.ly/H6NZQ. TWiki consultants have been invited in Jan 2009 to list their services to get more exposure: http://bit.ly/jcMCi . TWIKI.NET and I as the BDFL are committed to nurture a healthy TWiki ecosystem for contributors, consultants, TWiki champions and users. Dan, that includes you, I invite you to participate on twiki.org.

By: Don Barry

Don Barry — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:04:57 +0000

To correct Peter Thoeny's cheerleading for TWiki --
he's the one who suddenly pulled the trademark card and
demanded that others who had developed this software with
him sign a statement declaring him dictator -- or be kicked out.
And then he pulled their consultancy pages off TWiki.org,
which is now purely a TWiki.net (corporate) entity.

The developers continue this project as Foswiki, which Ohloh
shows has about ten times the current development activity.

If you label a project based on the developers, which I do, then
Foswiki is the leading open source collaboration platform for the
enterprise. TWiki is merely the previous release, hijacked by
a control freak.

By: Eric Eldon

Eric Eldon — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:19:18 +0000

Hey Peter, sorry about that — fixed the URL.

By: peterthoeny

peterthoeny — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Clarification on Rod's involvement in TWiki and company name: Rod and I co-founded TWIKI.NET (not Twiki.com) in spring 2007. He was interim CEO of the company until he was appointed as director of the National Cyber Security Center at the Department of Homeland Security. I wish Rod best of luck in his new role as CEO of ICANN!

TWIKI.NET provides enterprise grade software distribution, support, and services based on TWiki, the leading open source collaboration platform for enterprise.

-- Peter Thoeny, CTO of TWIKI.NET, http://www.twiki.net/ - @peterthoeny

By: Jay Cuthrell

Jay Cuthrell — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:58:31 +0000

If you mention ICANN and VeriSign and CFIT in a post you'll probably find sycophants on both sides of the issue showing up in droves. I remember how much domains cost back in the day. I also remember that eventually, ground gives

i.e. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TLD

There are some very opinionated folks in this matter. Personally, I've invested very little money in domains but on the business side, the impacts from outcome either way are of interest. If you get into IP address allocation and control it gets another group of folks (with opinions) into the mix.

I just find .com/.net/.whatever and things like ENUM to be near non-starters if you approach the Internet from a user perspective vs. academic or rigorous underpinning (IETF) view -- but that's why AOL Keywords were so powerful when they were the first/biggest controlled experience online.

By: Eric Eldon

Eric Eldon — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:30:14 +0000

Thought I'd remembered hearing something like that, Jay. Definitely agreed that it will be an interesting summer.

By: Jay Cuthrell

Jay Cuthrell — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:21:26 +0000

I had read speculation on this from a few weeks ago (http://ff.im/49MY1) and with the recent other coverage regarding the CFIT vs. VeriSign it makes for an interesting Summer for the registrars.