Dear Danny:
Since sending the note below, there have been several postings suggesting
that I need to look further into this matter. Mr. Smith -- in the direct style
he normally uses when writing to ICANN staff -- helpfully provided a
previously missing detail by forwarding a copy of the reconsideration request
he submitted by email on May 20, 2000.
With this specific information, I have looked further into the matter,
and indeed have unearthed a copy of Mr. Smith's email in someone's mailbox,,
but not filed where reconsideration requests are normally filed. To follow up
further, I need to speak with a staff member who is on vacation and out of
e-range, and will not be back for another 10 days. Until then, there is
nothing I can do. Without his input, I cannot determine the ultimate
disposition of this particular request and whether the email was somehow
lost in the process.
However, as mentioned in my earlier note, one of the two known (to us)
reconsideration requests from Mr. Smith was certainly processed, as well as a
request from Mr. Smith to reconsider that denied reconsideration request. This
was also denied. A further reconsideration request to reconsider the denied
reconsideration of the denied reconsideration was not pursued since the
Reconsideration Committee had already expressed its recommendation and the
Board made a decision.
I will get back to you and the list as soon a I can follow up with the
vacationing staff member.
Stuart
Stuart
At 7:36 PM -0400 8/7/01, DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:
Dear Mr. Lynn,
A
serious charge has been posted to the General Assembly list
(reproduced
below) which should not go
unanswered:
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc08/msg00308.html
Please
investigate this complaint. We need to be able to have faith in
the
reconsideration system, or the credibility that ICANN seeks to
achieve may
readily be lost. We appreciate the attention that
you will devote to this
matter.
Thank you,
Danny
Younger
Chair, GA
>May I remind you that you have 30 days
to make a reconsideration request>
after you experimented the problem.
You will find the necessary information>
at the following
page:>http://www.icann.org/general/reconsideration.htm
I have filed these in the
past. In some cases the answers were not
responsive to the complaints.
In other cases ICANN refused to answer or post
the submission. I
resubmitted some but they refuse to acknowledge or answer
the submission. The
reconsideration system is a complete sham.
Russ Smith
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