Talk:Michael Roberts

One of the many insiders from the .EDU and EDUCAUSE lobby. A California glad-hander smoozer and manipulator of Other Peoples Money. The first ICANN CEO who was a shill placed there by the insiders who claimed ICANN was a bottom-up, spontaneous, immaculate-conception corporation.

Michael Roberts, President & CEO: (1999)

Appointed an "interim" executive officer overseeing a tiny staff and implementing Board policy is Michael Roberts, one of the founders of The Internet Society and its first executive director. Most recently, he was the vice president in charge of networking and telecommunications for the EDUCOM consortium of 600 colleges and universities, this after being the telecom director at alma mater Stanford University. Roberts also has been at the center of the Internet2 project, an emergent broadband network for research and education, mirroring the educational origins of today's narrowband "Internet1."

Analysis: Little known to the public, Roberts is seen as an upper-tier member of the Internet elite, an insider's insider. His work on the Internet2 project gives Roberts an excellent perspective on the broadband Internet already emerging, where we enjoy the high-speed video and audio of television on the computer, and this larger perspective probably expands his vision for ICANN His roots within the Internet Society, critics caution, suggest Roberts' openness to the "gTLD-MoU gang." Players from the failed pre-ICANN governance proposal now populate ICANN committees, adding fuel to the allegations that ICANN has been captured by the same "privateers" who attempting to usurp control of the Internet in 1997, the same old bandits behind brand new masks.

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