Re: [ga] MINUTES OF MEETING OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

Bottom line: ICANN is mostly a Jones Day cash cow. I hope
that all of the candidates for the Board of Directors take note
of this.

Bill Lovell

Andy Gardner wrote:

> At 7:18 AM +1200 23/8/01, DPF wrote:
> >On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:49:59 -0500, Bruce James <bmjames@swbell.net>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>      PAYMENT OF LEGAL EXPENSES
> >>
> >>      During the months of February and May 2001, the fees associated with
> >>these outside services were US$105,209.90 and US$78,650.70, respectively.
> >>Given the discounts ICANN receives from Jones Day in recognition of its
> >>non-profit character, the effective hourly rate for the legal services
> >>covered by these two invoices is approximately US$200, well under the rates
> >>ordinarily charged by lawyers with comparable experience and credentials for
> >>work of this type.
> >
> >My mathematics works out that in February 2001 there must have then
> >been 525 hours spent on ICANN business, which would be least three
> >lawyers working full-time just on ICANN issues.
>
> Can we get some sort of discount factored in regarding the registry
> agreements that were originally written by Jones Day but were so bad they
> needed to be re-done?
>
> And can we assume that since we were told by Jones Day that the new
> agreements were non-negotiable, any time they spent in the ensuing
> negotiations was done at a zero rated fee?
>
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> Andrew P. Gardner
> barcelona.com stolen, stmoritz.com stays. What's uniform about the UDRP?
> We could ask ICANN to send WIPO a clue, but do they have any to spare?
> Get active: http://www.tldlobby.com
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The URLs for Best Practices:
DNSO Citation:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/gaindex.html
(Under "Other Information Documents"; "August 2001:
Proposal for Best Practices for the DNSO GA")
Part I:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BestPractices.html
Part II:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BP-flowchart.pdf
(Access to the .pdf file requires installing the Adobe Acrobat
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