Re: [wg-review] Constituencies, 1 governance and legality

[Karl Auerbach <karl@CaveBear.com>]

> >I don't know how it could be more plain.  The corporation doesn't have
> >members.  (I know that Karl Auerbach has entertaining legal theories.
> >You just have to consider that Karl is a full-time engineer who got a
> >law degree, while the bylaws were written by full-time lawyers that
> >everybody (except Karl) thinks are top notch.)

Yes I am an attorney - been so since 1978 when I obtained my JD cum laude
- I was working full time so my grades weren't as good as they could have
been, so I ended up merely matching the grades of a sitting justice of the
California Supreme court.  I've been an active member of the California
Bar ever since.  It seems that other lawyers think my skills are pretty
good - I've been asked to speak at Harvard Law school, the Kennedy School
of Government, Stanford Law school, Boston Univ Law, UCLA, Texas U, Cal
Tech/Loyola, etc.

I also happen to be in the Advanced Internet Architectures Group at Cisco.
I'm currently working doing research in conjunction with UC Berkeley on
network control systems under a DARPA research grant.

I do wonder who those "everybody" are who think that ICANN is getting "top
notch" legal services.

And yes, ICANN does have members.  Just because ICANN says that it doesn't
have members hardly changes the fact that California law says that ICANN
does.  One has to wonder at the "top notch" talent that somehow thinks
that corporate bylaws can repeal or supersede State statutes.  A chicken
may say that it is an eagle, and it may even believe it, but that hardly
makes it an eagle.

		--karl--




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