[wg-review] Time's up for ICANN

[Len Lindon <info@humanrights.com.au>]

> Why not this group decide on the issues
> that need to be resolved, then make the recommendation for groups on each
> topic, instead of asking for an extension of time here.

wrote NameCritic not long ago.

One issue that needs to be resolved is the likelihood that ICANN will cease
to exist or will be substantially broken up by March 2001.

There should be an immediate recommendation to form a Working Group to
urgently discuss and research options in the light of the ICANN Breakup
Case.

Not to mention the numerous Reconsideration Requests to ICANN from Marina
del Rey (November) AGM. It only takes one of them to tire of this farce and
go to a real court and the game could be up. And do you not think all the
Big Players are taking legal advice and hedging their bets on this.

There are now conflicting rulings in the USA on whether or not ICANN is
immune from both antitrust and administrative domestic law. It is unlikely
that the French courts would disagree on the correct characterisation. Even
an Australian court might get it right. Maybe in February. Tick tick tick.