Re: [ga] Option A -- "Divestiture'

[DPF <david@farrar.com>]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:35:34 -0600, you wrote:

>At 06:30 AM 3/22/2001, DPF wrote:
>>I am absolutely stunned by the litany of opinions posing as facts in
>>these FAQs.
>>...
>>In any company I know of, staff who behave in that way would have been
>>sacked.
>
>Perhaps the irony of your note escaped you, but you offer only your summary 
>opinion and no facts at all to substantiate them.

The irony is that I am not a staff member of ICANN.  I am a proponent
of a particular point of view offering an opinion not an analysis.  In
many other posts I have provided an analysis but in this case it was
merely an opinion.

>Whatever your extensive experience with proper staff functions, the 
>analysis provided by ICANN staff is actually quite professional.  It labels 
>opinions as opinions.  It analyses contract language and describes specific 
>obligations and lack of obligations, in terms of common expectation about 
>Verisign.

The analysis is extremely slanted, ignores many negative attributes,
glosses over others and puts the most unfavourable interpretation on
the existing contract.

Also who asked for the staff to do this lobbying?  Did the Board ask
the staff to do this?

>Staff are not expected to be machines; professional analysis had better 
>include professional opinions.

Conclusions such as that Verisign would be unbeatable to retain the
registries under the existing contract are highly inappropriate for
staff to make.  Has anyone considered that if ICANN stays with the
existing contract the staff had undermined ICANN's negotiability to
such an extent it is almost crippled because they have stated what the
decision has to be in six years time.  

I have spoken to around a dozen people who attended the Melbourne
meeting.  All were stunned at the attitude and actions of certain
staff members (I do not include Andrew McLoughlin or the new CEO in
this) which reflected extremely poorly on ICANN.  

DPF
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