<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div>Just informing various relevant mailing lists that my initial request for SSAC membership required:<br /><br />"The members are recognized experts in the domain name, addressing, and/or security areas."<br /><br />So, as it is a requirement to apply for SSAC membership, I am hereby recognizing myself as an expert in all of those areas, and invite others to do the same if they can lend their support, although the SSAC document does not specify how many people or organizations must recognize a person as such an expert, so it is not a requirement for me to build such a coalition of supporters to further recognize my self-recognized expertise.<br /><br />Ron</div></td></tr></table>            <div id="_origMsg_">
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                            Stephane Bortzmeyer &lt;bortzmeyer@nic.fr&gt;;                            <br>
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                            Chris Cowherd &lt;chris@donuts.email&gt;;                                                     <br>
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                            UA-discuss@icann.org &lt;UA-discuss@icann.org&gt;;                                                     <br>
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                            Re: [UA-discuss] Outreach Letter to Website Administrators...                            <br>
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                                <span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span>
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                                        <td valign="top">On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 07:38:18PM +0000,<br clear="none"> Chris Cowherd &lt;<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:chris@donuts.email" href="javascript:return">chris@donuts.email</a>&gt; wrote <br clear="none"> a message of 94 lines which said:<div class="yqt3854889663" id="yqtfd83185"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">&gt; The text was deliberately limited in scope and designed specifically<br clear="none">&gt; to be read and *understood* by 1st tier support.</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">With the current text, they will *think* they understand but it will<br clear="none">perpetuate their mistakes. I cannot support a text which is *wrong*.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you want to be laughed at like BlueCoat was, please proceed.<div class="yqt3854889663" id="yqtfd80385"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></td>
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