ICANN Accountability (was Re: [ga] The Real World)

[Darrell Greenwood <lists1@mac.com>]

On 5/26/02 at 5:29 PM -0400, James Love wrote the following :

>some basic issues of accountability have to be addressed.

Yea.

Who is the ICANN board accountable to?*

Who is the management of ICANN accountable to?*

I find it interesting that the management of ICANN can prevent a
director of ICANN from seeing the ICANN books by presenting him with
policies that the board of ICANN never considered.

In http://www.icann.org/legal/auerbach-v-icann/cerf-decl-16apr02.pdf
(html at http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=763) John Gilmore
wrote the following words :

>I've been a director of several California corporations. I've read
>that part of the law myself. I've invoked it in a couple of
>occasions. I contributed significant funding for Karl's lawsuit.
>Karl is right and you and the ICANN staff are wrong. And now I find
>you lying about it in a press release. "ICANN management is merely
>carrying out its obligation to follow the wishes of the Board as a
>whole..." ICANN *management* instigated those policies, the board
>didn't. The board has never even considered them.

"The board has never even considered them."

Cheers,

Darrell

*As far as current accountability is concerned he best answer I have
seen so far to these questions is at...
 http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/formandsubstance.pdf
This is really good work and well worth reading by anybody interested
in ICANN matters, many thanks to Michael Froomkin for writing this
article and sharing it with us.

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