Re: [ga] Comments on ICANN Reform Recommendations

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

Kent and all assembly members,

Kent Crispin wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 02:25:13AM -0700, Sandy Harris wrote:
> >
> > I think the bottom line is that ICANN is a "public benefit" corporation.
> > Without a pausible plan to ensure that the public interest is adequately
> > respresented, it loses all legitimacy.
>
> The legitimacy of a public benefit corporation does not in any way
> whatsoever depend on any form of representation of the public; a
> public benefit corporation is by definition a *private* entity that
> gets a particular tax status.  It has absolutely no obligation under
> the law to involve the public in its management or in any of its
> decision-making processes.

  Of course this is patently false.  Kent you should not enguage in
legal matters of any kind as you are not well versed in them if you
mske baltent statements such as this one.

>
>
> The way it works, basically, is that the directors and officers decide
> what the corporation does; and the state decides whether those
> activities are worthy of special tax status.  Under normal
> circumstances the state has absolutely nothing else to do with it, and
> neither does the general public.
>
> That is, public representation is absolutely not necessary for ICANN to
> function as a completely legitimate public benefit corp, just like
> thousands and thousands of other corporations.
>
> --
> Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
> kent@songbird.com                          lonesome."  -- Mark Twain
>
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