Re: [ga] ICANN, The Troika & Fraud

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Danny and all assembly members,

  As a US Chamber of Commerce member myself and a numberof our
[INEGroup] members that are also members of several of these organizations,
such a letter and it's contents cannot and do not represent the positions
of all of their members nor can they demonstrate, as we have, that
they do speak for their respective members in a number of cases
in the list below.  Hence, yes, it would seem that again ICANN
is perpatrating something less than an honest position or opinion.

  As you may know, Worldcom for instance is again in trouble in
its ever increasing fradulent behavior and actions. See:
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,55248,00.html
It seems that Worldcom along I would guess one of its
VP's,one Vent Cerf, also COB of ICANN, cannot seem to
abide by the law without being forced to do so.


DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> When ICANN posted the "Community Communications to US Department of Commerce
> on ICANN Evolution and Reform", I remember scanning through the page quickly
> and noting the comments by assorted registries, registrars, and by what was
> purported to be "Various Private-Sector Organizations".
>
> Upon taking a closer look at the private sector letter (posted at
> http://www.icann.org/committees/evol-reform/private-sector-organizations-to-us
>
> doc-04sep02.htm ), one notes that these aren't just a random set of
> publicly-spirited organizations that have heeded the call as good corporate
> citizens to communicate with the DoC -- instead, every organizational
> signatory just happens to be a member of the Troika (the coalition of the BC,
> IPC and ISP constituencies that meet together as a group at every ICANN
> session and always manage to vote together as a single bloc in the DNSO).
> The signatories to this letter:
>
> American Intellectual Property Law Association
> American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
> AT&T Corporation
> Broadcast Music Inc.
> BT North America, Inc.
> CABASE
> ECOM-LAC
> International Trademark Association
> Internet Commerce Coalition
> Internet Software Consortium, Inc.
> Motion Picture Association of America
> RNA Associates
> Software and Information Industry Association
> The Darwin Group
> U.S. Chamber of Commerce
> US Internet Industry Association
> Verizon Communications Inc.
> WorldCom, Inc.
>
> One has to wonder if the Motion Picture Association of America or the U.S.
> Chamber of Commerce, among others, are even aware of this letter -- there is
> certainly no mention of the letter on any of their respective websites, no
> mention in the "recent news" portion of their sites, no announcement,
> nothing...  you can't even find a reference to it using their internal
> website search functions.  Did any of these esteemed organizations actually
> see this letter, did any of their members or Executive Committees vote upon
> and endorse this letter, or is this nothing more than a vile fraud
> perpetrated by those in the Troika that appended an organizational signature
> onto this letter without any legitimate or proper authorization?
>
> AT&T Corporation has no press release regarding this letter in support of
> ICANN reform, neither does the US Internet Industry Association, nor Verizon
> Communications, nor does any other signatory to this letter.  Hmmm... I
> wonder why?
>
> The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which claims to represent 3,000,000 businesses
> through 3,000 state and local chambers and 830 business associations along
> with 94 American Chambers of Commerce in 82 countries, somehow manages to
> suddenly endorse ICANN reform even while their website has only one brief
> article on ICANN apparently written four years ago.  So... do 3 million U.S.
> businesses in fact endorse the ICANN reform, or did perhaps someone on the BC
> just add the name of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce onto this list of
> signatories without any formal authorization to do so?
>
> Rather than sending a letter with their personal signatures, those that sent
> this letter (and those that posted the letter) are perpetrating a fraud.
> They are telling both the DoC and the Congressmen cc'd in the letter that
> major U.S. Corporations and Associations formally support and endorse ICANN
> and its reform initiative -- and this is a bald-faced lie.
>
> But what else can we possibly expect from those that feed at the ICANN trough?
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Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
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