Re: [ga] Were you consulted?

["Bret A. Fausett" <baf@fausett.com>]

I participate in this list, and I saw know online consultation with the
DNSO's GA.

I also participate in the Business and Commercial constituency list and saw
no consultation there.

I subscribe to the ICANN announce list and received no announcement that
ICANN was considering staffing these committees.

I've also signed up to be an At Large member, and I didn't get any
information about the committees' formation from that side of ICANN.

ICANN staff sometimes seeks input from the NC on the NC mailing list. See,
e.g.,
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc03/msg00273.html
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc03/msg00502.html

But I couldn't find any requests for input on the NC list either.

I listened to the last NC conference call and heard nothing about the
staffing issues for these committees then.

       -- Bret



----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
To: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 6:37 AM
Subject: [ga] Were you consulted?


> As you may know, ICANN suddenly announced last week that it has formed
> Election and Nominating Committees, without any visible public input.
> The announcement is at
> http://www.icann.org/announcements/icann-pr09may00.htm .
>
> Commentary suggesting that there were a few flaws in the process can be
> found at http://www.icannwatch.org
>
> In response to this criticism, ICANN CEO Mike Roberts is quoted in today's
> New York Times as saying that "Icann directors and staff worked hard to
> consult widely in the process of forming these committees,"
> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/cyber/capital/16capital.html .
>
> As far as I can tell, no one I know was consulted, and am I in touch with
> a lot of people interested in ICANN.  My suspicion is that if ICANN did
> engage in consultations at all they were limited to participants in the
> late gTLD-MOU and/or representatives of large corporations.
>
> In order to test this intuition, I would be very interested in hearing
> from anyone who was actually consulted by ICANN prior to this
> announcement, whatever their affiliation.
>
> [This message is being cross-posted widely; please feel free to circulate
> as appropriate until May 25, 2000]
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