[ga-full] Re: [ga] Matters to discuss

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Kent and all remaining asembly members,

In a message dated 2/22/00 4:15:57 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
kent@songbird.com writes:

<< On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 02:43:19PM -0500, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami 
School of Law wrote:
 > These are excellent points.  I might add that so far as I am aware few of
 > the ICANN bodies have made sustained attempts to secure volunteer aid in
 > kind instead of in cash.
 
 NCDNHC has no money, so everything it does is through volunteer effort.
  
  This is wonderful, but hardly is representative of a professional 
organization,
or a legitimate "Constituency" as ICANN has determined that a "Constituency"
must be approved by the ICANN board.  Pure fantasy.
 
 > For example, I imagine that both ICANN and the DNSO could find volunteers
 > to take over design, maintenance, and perhaps even hosting of their web
 > pages.
 
 I think that is largely true for DNSO, but I don't think so for ICANN.  
 ICANN has a much higher level of fiduciary responsibility than the DNSO 
 -- for example, it provides the authoritative list of UDRP proceedings.  
 Volunteer efforts are wonderful, but there is no doubt that they are 
 not as accountable as paid labor.
 
They (ICANN) are not accountable at all, or at least act as though they are
not.  
 
 >  But AFIK they have never asked - there's nothing visible on the
 > web page as far as I can see, for example.  There are of course issues of
 > ownership and control, but these surely could be worked out.
 
 I think a central core of services will have to be controlled by ICANN 
 fairly closely.  But there is a great deal of very important stuff that 
 could be safely be distributed to volunteers, or other organizations.  
 That is sort of the supporting organization model, actually.

  And it is as has been pointed out time and time again, a flawed and
unrepresentative model.

David "Dude" Jenson
INEGRoup-West Director
 
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 Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
 kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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