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ARIN 2010 Election Candidates Announced

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

My work as part of the ARIN NomCom this year has concluded, and I’m happy to see that the final slate of candidates was announced today:

Elections for two (2) seats on the ARIN Board of Trustees and five (5)
seats on the ARIN Advisory Council will be held online 6-16 October.

The following candidates have agreed to run for office:

Board of Trustees:
* Vinton Cerf, Google, Inc.
* Lee Howard, Time Warner Cable
* Aaron Hughes, 6connect, Inc
* Paul Vixie, Internet Systems Consortium

Advisory Council:
* Cathy Aronson, Cascadeo Corporation
* Jim Deleskie, Tata
* Owen DeLong, Hurricane Electric
* David Divins, Carpathia Hosting
* Wes George, Sprint
* Gary Giesen, Advanced Knowledge Networks
* Chris Grundemann, TW Telecom
* Martin Hannigan, Akamai Technologies, Inc.
* William Herrin, ITT
* Scott Leibrand, Internap
* Andrew Mentges, Jumpline Inc
* John Springer, Inland Telephone
* Tom Zeller, Indiana University

Many of the candidates will address the membership on 6 October at
ARIN’s Public Policy and Members Meeting in Atlanta. These speeches,
brief biographies and a form to voice support for candidates can be
found online at ARIN Election Headquarters:

https://www.arin.net/app/election/

Good luck to all of the candidates, and thank you for your offer of service to the ARIN community.

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Ideologically Derived Facts

Friday, August 20th, 2010

There’s a great post today on a statistics blog I read, entitled Some things are just really hard to believe: more on choosing your facts. You should read this for yourself, but from my preconceived anti-ideological worldview the truth of it is almost self-evident. Here’s an excerpt:

Of course, it makes sense that people with different judgment of the facts would have different views on policies: if you think carbon dioxide doesn’t cause substantial global warming, you’ll be on the opposite side of the global warming debate from someone who thinks it does. But often the causality runs the other way: instead of choosing a policy that matches the facts, people choose to believe the facts that back up their values-driven policies. The issue about Obama’s birth country is an extreme example: it’s clear that people did not first decide whether Obama was born in the U.S., and then decide whether to vote Republican or Democratic. They are choosing their fact based on their values, not the other way around. Perhaps it is helpful to think of people as having an inappropriate prior distribution that makes them more likely to believe things that are aligned with their desires.

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ARIN 2010 Elections

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

I’m pleased to be serving on the Nomination Committee (NomCom) for ARIN this year, helping identify the slate of candidates for the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Council elections. From the call for nominations:

ARIN is issuing an open call for General Members in good standing to nominate candidates for two (2) seats on the Board of Trustees, five (5) seats on the Advisory Council, and one (1) seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council that become open when current terms expire on 31 December 2010.

The Board of Trustees and Advisory Council election has a Nomination Committee (NomCom) that is responsible for identifying, recruiting, and certifying a properly selected slate of candidates to be placed in nomination before the membership for election. This year’s NomCom members are: Board of Trustee members Paul Andersen and Scott Bradner, Advisory Council members Heather Schiller and Bill Sandiford, and general member volunteers Bill Manning, Justin Clutter, and Benson Schliesser. Paul Andersen is serving as NomCom Chair.

New Board, Advisory Council, and NRO NC terms begin 1 January 2011. The two Board seats opening are held by Paul Vixie and Lee Howard. The five Advisory Council seats opening are currently held by: Cathy Aronson, Marla Azinger, Owen DeLong, Scott Leibrand, and Tom Zeller. ARIN Board and Advisory Council incumbents may be re-elected for consecutive terms. Jason Schiller’s seat for the NRO NC also became open this year. Please note that the NRO Number Council representatives now fulfill the role of ICANN’s ASO Address Council.

Nominations close on Monday 9 August at 17:00 (EDT, I believe) so act quickly if interested. For more information, please see https://www.arin.net/app/election/.

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