[CLUE-Talk] UCITA status

[charlie oriez]

By now I assume that everyone has seen Red Hat's anti UCITA letter and the 
related coverage.

Just in case:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26382.html
http://www.ucitaonline.com/docs/ltrtoComPost.htm 

Per an article posted this afternoon at ZDNET, the commissioners will not be 
voting until Thursday.  Debate has run longer than expected.  Probably lots 
of lobbying going on.  

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-947182.html

One problem.  The list of Colorado commissioners in theregister is obsolete.  
That makes me suspect that the others are too.

Among Dems the most influential ought to be Bill Thiebaut, since he is their 
nominee for Lieutenant Governor.  Matt Smith seems to have the most tech 
knowledge on the GOP side and would therefor hopefully be influential with 
them.  Neither appears on the commissioner list that newsforge/theregister 
put out.  AFFECT had the current list.  I got suspicious when I saw Russell 
George's name.  I knew he had left the legislature, and NCCUSL, two years ago 
to become head of DOW.  Sorry I dont have the complete list ready to hand.

repmattsmith at qwest.net  
billthiebaut at qwest.net  

Emails tomorrow might be useful.  Each state gets one vote.  We need 50% plus 
1 for the Colorado delegation to vote our way.

CLUE should consider adding its name to the anti UCITA coaltion.  Your call, 
of course.  AITP is voting now and will probably add its name to the list as 
soon as we complete the vote, probably in a couple of days.  AFFECT has done 
a really good job fighting this thing state by state.  I spent a couple of 
days at the NCSL conference in Denver with a couple of their lobbyists, and 
was very impressed with them.  I thought I knew a fair amount about lobbying 
until I listened to them.

http://affect.ucita.com/

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Charles Oriez, coriez at oriez.org
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