Re: [ga] Were you consulted?

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

Michael and all DNSO members remaining,

  Yes Michael I believe you are correct here in your intuition.  I have
contacted to date several hundred companies and organizations
privately and NONE have heard of any public comment period
prior to the ICANN announcement that you mention here.  We [INEGroup]
are continuing to seek out organizations and companies that have or were
consulted as Mike Roberts asserts.

  Mr. Roberts, perhaps you could provide everyone with a short list
of those organizations, or companies that were consulted and those
consultations made public as required in the ICANN bylaws?

Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:

> 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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