Re: [ga] Membership

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

Danny you never gave a real response to the question of; Who owns ICANN?  I know
you endeavored to determine the issue.  Are you by lack of declaration
proclaiming that you do not know?  Does it contract without ownership?  If I were
to force it into dissolution would there be no assets because no one owns them
and so they are ethereal at best?  And if such be the case who are the real
parties at interest with the Registrar and Registry contracts?

Please address your recent activity shows you are on the pulse.

Eric

DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> The original Bylaws of the Corporation (Nov. 6, 1998) anticipated that ICANN
> would have a membership... hence, ARTICLE II: MEMBERSHIP:  (This Article is
> reserved for use when the Corporation has members.)
>
> Somewhere along the line this was changed to what we now have today:  "The
> Corporation shall not have members as defined in the California Nonprofit
> Public Benefit Corporation Law ("CNPBCL"), notwithstanding the use of the
> term "Member" in these bylaws, in a selection plan adopted by Board
> resolution, or in any other action of the Board."
>
> The At-Large (as described by the ALSC) will not be members of ICANN.  They
> will be individuals and/or institutions within a Supporting Organization that
> is technically an internal working committee within a corporation with no
> members.
>
> Is this what the Internet community either wants or expects?  I don't think
> so.  True membership fosters true accountability.  Perhaps the ALSC can
> clarify why , in their view, ICANN should continue to be a corporation
> without members, instead of a corporation with At-Large members.
>
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