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[ga] MISSING DOCUMENTS - ICANN is evading these questions


Title: Help
 
3rd e-mail sent to Dan Halloran about MISSING DOCUMENTS:
 
 
 
Dear Mr Halloran (and colleagues at ICANN)
 
I still have not had any reply concerning the MISSING DOCUMENTS : "Proof of Concept Evaluation reports" from Afilias, in accordance with Appendix U of the .info Agreement with ICANN.
 
I would like to ask more urgently and specifically these straightforward and reasonable questions:
 
1. Have Afilias, as of 21st August 2002, submitted the documents required of them under Appendix U?
 
2. Given the community's need for these documents if it is to participate in the NewTLD Evaluation Process in an informed manner, why has ICANN not published these documents?
 
3. According to the Agreement, these documents were only to be kept private for a limited time. In various cases (and the majority) the time for these documents to be kept private has expired (indeed significantly). Can ICANN detail the state-of-play for each document and section (as outlined in Appendix U)?
 
4. Why has no-one from ICANN responded to my polite request concerning these MISSING DOCUMENTS?
 
As I explained in my two previous mails, these Evaluation reports are central documents for all constituencies who wish to participate in the NewTLD Evaluation Process. I have been participating for over a year on ICANN's own NewTLDs Evaluation Forum (and its predecessor) and am recognised as having a detailed knowledge of the process and its impact, from the user/registrant point of view. I am also an elected @large representative and a regular participant in the GA. I feel my request deserves a serious response.
 
These key DOCUMENTS are, as of now, MISSING and UNACCOUNTED FOR. I feel sure you can account for them by answering my enquiry.
 
I should like to ask Nancy Victory, as an honorable party engaged in reviewing ICANN's reforms, whether she feels that ICANN's silences in matters like these indicate the undertaking for greater openness (and responsiveness?) made to her recently by Mr Stuart Lynn? Furthermore, how can various constituencies in ICANN participate in evaluating and developing policy, and seeking consensus, if they are not even able to view key documents in the "Proof of Concept" evaluation process? Besides, these were documents which were expressly not intended to remain private (stated clearly in Appendix U) and there can be little integrity in the Proof of Concept process if they either (a) haven't been submitted, or (b) are being withheld.
 
My request is formally and politely made to you, and I request your kind attention and professional response (including acknowledgement of the receipt of this and my previous e-mails).
 
Kind regards
 
Richard Henderson
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 6:14 AM
Subject: Further request to ICANN to publish the Afilias Evaluation of Concepts

Dear Mr Halloran
 
I have not yet heard from you or your colleagues concerning the "Proof of Concept Evaluation" materials which are supposed to have been submitted by Afilias. Under the terms of the .info Agreement Appendix U, these materials can now be made public.
 
For the reasons already stipulated in my previous mail, the public has good reason to want to study these evaluation documents, and I fail to see how participation in the New TLD Evaluation process can proceed if participants do not have access to these materials.
 
Please could you confirm that you will attend to this matter, to enable me and others to have access to the documents?
 
I am initiating action to secure these documents, and I shall be recording and reporting all responses from ICANN on this issue. My request is formally and politely made to you, and I request your kind attention and professional response (including acknowledgement of the receipt of this and my previous e-mail).
 
Kind regards
 
Richard Henderson
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 3:33 PM
Subject: Please publish the Afilias Evaluation of Concepts documentation for .info

Please enable us to view the Proof of Concept Evaluation of .info as submitted by Afilias.
 
I'd like to request that the Evaluation of Concepts covering the .info TLD be published in the public domain.
 
According to the .info Agreement (Appendix U) Afilias were contractually obliged to submit detailed responses for ICANN as part of the Proof of Concept process (otherwise, why have a "proof of concept"?)
 
 
According to this agreement, Afilias's submissions of information were only to be kept private for a limited period of time (in most cases 3 months, in some cases not at all).
 
As you can see from the Appendix at the URL above, this involved a detailed assessment of how things went. As there is a widely-held public perception that serious mistakes were made and the process was shambolic and detrimental to the public interest, I think it is wholly correct that Afilias's explanation of what happened should be accessible to the public (as clearly implied by this Appendix U).
 
Where is this material?
 
Is it published online?
 
Will you e-mail it to me or others on request?
 
Please would the ICANN Board and executive respond. Hal Lubsen may also like to respond if he can help.
 
Dan - I KNOW I've berated you for taking over 120 days to reply (well... NOT to reply) to my "recent" correspondence, but I REALLY would appreciate a reply to THIS enquiry, so you and ICANN are seen to be transparent as it's pretty obvious that the Proof of Concept Evaluations are documents of value for consideration by the whole of the ICANN community.
 
Thank you.
 
Richard Henderson


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