RE: [ga] No room on the bus

["David Hernand" <david@new.net>]

Danny:

Thanks much for your posting.  The facts you describe are truly remarkable.
Moreover, such facts are particularly ironic in light of ICANN's willingness
to accept our sponsorship of the ICANN meeting in Montevideo and the
following personal note of thanks that we received from Stuart Lynne earlier
this month:

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-----Original Message-----
From: M. Stuart Lynn [mailto:lynn@icann.org]
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 10:57 AM
To: Brad.Copeland
Subject: Thank you


Dear Brad:

I would like to thank you and your colleagues at New.Net for your
sponsorship of ICANN's recent meetings in Montevideo.

I am sure that all attendees were grateful for your generous
contribution. We appreciate it.

With regards
Stuart
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__________________
Stuart Lynn
President and CEO
ICANN
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Tel: 310-823-9358
Fax: 310-823-8649
Email: lynn@icann.org

**********************

Apparently, the ICANN staff's views change with the wind, and Mr. Lynn's
level of appreciation for our past support does not extend to future
meetings or perhaps just meetings of the GA -- we can't be sure!  One must
really wonder what public benefit is served by denying constructive
participation by persons with different viewpoints.

Best regards,

David Hernand
CEO
New.net

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of
DannyYounger@cs.com
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 12:48 PM
To: ga@dnso.org
Subject: [ga] No room on the bus


Dear members,

It is my duty as your Chair to report on recent events.  As many of you
know,
the General Assembly will be meeting on the evening of November 12 from 8PM
to 11PM.  The new.net organization kindly offered to sponsor our session by
providing food and beverage during our meeting (which comes at the end of a
very long day of back-to-back meetings).

Protocol required that I contact Mary Hewitt as per the instructions posted
at http://www.icann.org/mdr2001/  because "Starting with the Marina Del Rey
2001 meeting, there will be a new format for sponsorship opportunities for
this ICANN meeting."

Ms. Hewitt rejected the sponsorship application of new.net citing the fact
that they did not support the authoritative root.

I sent a reconsideration request to Stuart Lynn.  Mr. Lynn responded that
"we
place bounds around whom we accept as sponsors. And new.net does not fit the
package."

On the 1st of December 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks, an African-American
seamstress,
was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for failing to let a white bus rider
take
her seat.   Today, ICANN has proven that discrimination is still very much
alive, and that there is no longer any room on the bus for those that don't
share the same views as ICANN staff.

Although our Memorandum of Understanding with the US Department of Commerce
states:  "Neither Party, either in the DNS Project or in any act related to
the DNS Project, shall act unjustifiably or arbitrarily to injure particular
persons or entities or particular categories of persons or entities," recent
ICANN actions, from the issuance of ICP-3 to this sponsorship denial, make
it
clear that ICANN is indeed acting to injure a particular cartegory of
entities.

I thank new.net for demonstrating its commitment to participation in the
ICANN process and for its support of the General Assembly.  It is to our
shame that such efforts at participation are routinely being denied by those
charged with the coordination activities of the Internet.  This is a sad day
in our history, and I mourn the death of the concept of "fairness".

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