Re: [ga] FYI: Board, meetings, resolutions, bylaws

[eric@hi-tek.com]

Dear Mr. Auerbach,

This is an open a scathing report regarding the workings of ICANN.
One would have to be a legal neophyte not to notice that you are intentionally
distancing yourself from the pirates on board this sinking ship.
You have taken legal action and now openly criticize them.
Another may suggest that you divulge as much information as you have in order
to further insulate yourself from the nefarious actions of your corporation.
LACNIC moves forward/ APNIC is struggling/ DOC is left completely out of the
loop and EU and CN are proliferating. Hmmmmmm?????
Sincerely,
Eric Dierker

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Alexander Svensson wrote:
>
> > the ICANN "Transition Board" now consists of the
> > following 16 persons:
>
> (I notice my name missing from your list)
>
> One has to admire the utterly and unacceptably sloppy draftsmanship of the
> definition of who is on the board now and who is not.
>
> One can read that definition as saying that at this time I am off the
> board, but that I can rejoin by sending a letter.  Or one can try to read
> it as saying that I'm still on the board but that I lapse if I don't
> respond by the indicated date.
>
> How can ICANN measure a quorum when it can't even say who are the
> directors and who are not?
>
> I also really am amused by the amazing stretch of semantics that allows
> certain directors who came into ICANN four years ago, for one year terms,
> and who have never been voted into their directorships by anyone, to claim
> the mantle of "at-large" and to once again extend their terms - this time
> into the fifth year, a 500% overextension of the original time.  And this
> was done in the name of "continuity"?  Didn't ICANN just "reform" itself
> in order to break the links to its past failures?  Or are we simply
> observing a facade, a facade made all the more clear by the grasping acts
> of old faces with old ideas, a facade in which ICANN has simply painted
> some cheap new words onto a very shabby old structure?
>
> [For those of you who were wondering why I wasn't there - I had planned on
> participating by telephone but we were clobbered here in Santa Cruz by a
> major storm coming out of the Pacific and our fragile utility structure
> here did what it usually does when the trees fall, the rivers rise, and
> the hillsides slide - it collapses.  So I was without power or telephone
> for the days surrounding and during the meeting.]
>
> And for those of you wondering whether I will continue or not ... stay
> tuned.
>
>                 --karl--
>
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