Re: [ga] Sims' legal advice to the NC/Process predetermination

[Michael Sondow <msondow@iciiu.org>]

Mark C. Langston wrote:
> 
> In a message to the NC list, Joe Sims speaks from a legal standpoint,
> regarding the GA, its Chair, and their relation to the NC:
> 
> "Since the GA Chair is an arm of the NC used to carry out the NC's
> management responsibilities with respect to the GA, it is not correct
> to view this process as being required to be either truly electoral or
> representative."
> 
> So, the GA Chair is a tool for the top-down control of the GA, and
> the NC can put whoever they want in that position.

Of course. Joe Sims is the architect of ICANN. He's the one who has
schemed out all the many ways that ICANN has used to disenfranchise
the public, the users, the consumers, and all the other independent
stakeholders of the Internet. His firm Jones Day has only one
interest: Big Business.

> In another message, Theresa Swinehart outlines what appears to
> be the consensus for the NC as to how they are going to run this
> process:

Theresa Swinehart is a stooge for CORE. She should never have been
permitted to be the DNSO's secretary or run the DNSO website. She
and her CORE friends should be thrown out of the DNSO. Physically,
if necessary.

> So the NC had already determined, as early as last Monday, which proposal
> they're going to accept.

Naturally. Just like they had decided who would be the DNSO board
members before the GA's nominations.

> I fail to see any bottom-up processes inherent in any of this.

"Bottom-up" has only one meaning for ICANN, and it is unprintable in
polite company.

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