[ga] ICANN, The Troika & Fraud

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

When ICANN posted the "Community Communications to US Department of Commerce 
on ICANN Evolution and Reform", I remember scanning through the page quickly 
and noting the comments by assorted registries, registrars, and by what was 
purported to be "Various Private-Sector Organizations".  

Upon taking a closer look at the private sector letter (posted at 
http://www.icann.org/committees/evol-reform/private-sector-organizations-to-us

doc-04sep02.htm ), one notes that these aren't just a random set of 
publicly-spirited organizations that have heeded the call as good corporate 
citizens to communicate with the DoC -- instead, every organizational 
signatory just happens to be a member of the Troika (the coalition of the BC, 
IPC and ISP constituencies that meet together as a group at every ICANN 
session and always manage to vote together as a single bloc in the DNSO).  
The signatories to this letter:  

American Intellectual Property Law Association
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
AT&T Corporation
Broadcast Music Inc. 
BT North America, Inc.
CABASE
ECOM-LAC 
International Trademark Association
Internet Commerce Coalition
Internet Software Consortium, Inc.
Motion Picture Association of America
RNA Associates 
Software and Information Industry Association 
The Darwin Group
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
US Internet Industry Association 
Verizon Communications Inc.
WorldCom, Inc.

One has to wonder if the Motion Picture Association of America or the U.S. 
Chamber of Commerce, among others, are even aware of this letter -- there is 
certainly no mention of the letter on any of their respective websites, no 
mention in the "recent news" portion of their sites, no announcement, 
nothing...  you can't even find a reference to it using their internal 
website search functions.  Did any of these esteemed organizations actually 
see this letter, did any of their members or Executive Committees vote upon 
and endorse this letter, or is this nothing more than a vile fraud 
perpetrated by those in the Troika that appended an organizational signature 
onto this letter without any legitimate or proper authorization?

AT&T Corporation has no press release regarding this letter in support of 
ICANN reform, neither does the US Internet Industry Association, nor Verizon 
Communications, nor does any other signatory to this letter.  Hmmm... I 
wonder why?  

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which claims to represent 3,000,000 businesses 
through 3,000 state and local chambers and 830 business associations along 
with 94 American Chambers of Commerce in 82 countries, somehow manages to 
suddenly endorse ICANN reform even while their website has only one brief 
article on ICANN apparently written four years ago.  So... do 3 million U.S. 
businesses in fact endorse the ICANN reform, or did perhaps someone on the BC 
just add the name of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce onto this list of 
signatories without any formal authorization to do so?

Rather than sending a letter with their personal signatures, those that sent 
this letter (and those that posted the letter) are perpetrating a fraud.  
They are telling both the DoC and the Congressmen cc'd in the letter that 
major U.S. Corporations and Associations formally support and endorse ICANN 
and its reform initiative -- and this is a bald-faced lie.

But what else can we possibly expect from those that feed at the ICANN trough?
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