Don Heath

Don Heath is the president of the Internet Society.

[edit] An opinion

http://xent.com/FoRK-archive/sept98/0336.html

"They have walked in a mine field and presented something that works," said Don Heath, president of the Internet Society, which had proposed its own plan for the future of the domain name system and for setting up worldwide registrars." "The plan is committed to an open process," he added. "We are not producing a constitution; it is setting up a corporation to do the mundane task of assigning names and numbers. But this will set a precedent for Net governance in the future, and this is a corporation that could decide who can be a registry--which some say translates to big dollars."

Note that barring another sharp reversal -- a miracle I would say -- The White House is on the verge of giving Heath possible access to a money stream for ISOC which always hovers near bankruptcy. No wonder Heath is happy. With ICANN's unfettered ability to tax internet users not only for names but for new IP v6 numbers, Heath has been handed a gold mine. ISOC will no longer have to be worried about going out of business while the Clinton administration has lied to the rest of us -- promising openness and delivering a back room deal. (Note that a reliable source assures me that the ISOC Board and Heath are by no means necessarily of the same mind.)