Re: [ga] What makes a corporation?

[Eric Dierker <eric@HI-TEK.COM>]

The presidential directive, the resulting CFR, the later letters of DoC, the entire
contracting and RFP procedures establishing ICANN and wresting power into non-USG
hands, the Green and White papers and the contract with ICANN is so filled with this
correct decision that any rational man, with this knowledge could not possibly reach
a different conclusion lest he be of a larcenous intent.

Jeff Williams wrote:

> Bill and all,
>
>   One method that does work is real competition!  >;)
>
> William S. Lovell wrote:
>
> > Roeland Meyer wrote:
> >
> > > It certainly appears that way Ollie...
> >
> > You may be right, Stan. If that were the case, corrective measures
> > would be required.  Among the responses (not necessarilty to me,
> > but back and forth between others), I find the spectre of the large
> > corporation having huge voting power, since they sell votes and
> > they can pile up endlessly. (It is only in this kind of weird Internet
> > context that the selling of votes, with prices listed, is announced to
> > the world.)  So the next question is, what good are they? Is it not
> > the BoD that ultimately makes the decisions on various things? I
> > have seen nothing that would legally bind the BoD to do anything
> > -- except as some have pointed out, abide by the Bylaws and
> > have a DNSO.  But where does it say that those things on which the
> > DNSO speaks out, presumably on the basis of what its various
> > constituencies have voted to do, must be followed by the BoD?
> > And if the BoD does its own thing regardless, what recourse is
> > there?  I can think of a few, but would like to be educated as to
> > what viable options really exist.  (One suggestion I saw a few
> > days ago, that everyone boycott so that the DNSO disappears,
> > I don't see as viable.)
> >
> > Bill Lovell
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: William S. Lovell [mailto:wsl@cerebalaw.com]
> > > Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 7:19 PM
> > >
> > > The issue, of course, is whether the present structure is such that
> > > "constituencies"
> > > are simply ghost-like wraiths that ineffectively float about the real
> > > action; there is no
> > > actual need for any constituency for dominating TM owners because the system
> > > is
> > > already locked in to their advantage. Is that what we have here?
> > > Bill Lovell
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> Regards,
>
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