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  • From: B Holroyd <beeline AT mindspring.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: ICANN creates election committees without public input?
  • Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 03:00:44 -0400


I signed up months ago and have received no snail-mailed PIN.

Shea Tisdale wrote:
>
> I'm an at large member and I got the same notification you did. The first I
> heard about these committees was when it hit the news and then I had to go
> to the web site. This isn't an inclusive process. It's a sham to make
> people feel like it's inclusive.
>
> Go join. Go to their at-large membership site. http://members.icann.org/
>
> join.
> or better yet, don't join.
>
> select members only - there isn't anything special there.
> Your only option is to activate your membership.
> Do that and you'll be told that your pin number will be mailed to you, that
> they haven't been mailed yet, but it might take up to 8 weeks.
>
> Funny, you didn't join yet. Where are they gonna mail it to?
>
> Shea Tisdale
>
> > From: B Holroyd <beeline AT mindspring.com>
> > Reply-To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> > Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 14:57:51 -0400
> > To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> > Subject: [internetworkers] Re: ICANN creates election committees without
> > public input?
> >
> > So the question becomes: What, if anything, can we, the affected, do about
> > it?
> >
> > Thomas Beckett wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks for passing this on, B. Michael Froomkin is one of the best
> >> ICANN watchdogs around. ICANN has become a rather nefarioius
> >> organization, and it affects all of us. -TaB
> >>
> >> B Holroyd wrote:
> >>>> Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:01:32 -0400 (EDT)
> >>>> From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law"
> >>>> <froomkin AT law.miami.edu>
> >>>> To: DOMAIN-POLICY AT LISTS.INTERNIC.NET, list AT ifwp.org
> >>>>
> >>>> As you may know, ICANN suddenly announced last week that it has formed
> >>>> Election and Nominating Committees, without any visible public input.
> >>>> The announcement is at
> >>>> http://www.icann.org/announcements/icann-pr09may00.htm .
> >>>>
> >>>> Commentary suggesting that there were a few flaws in the process can be
> >>>> found at http://www.icannwatch.org
> >>>>
> >>>> In response to this criticism, ICANN CEO Mike Roberts is quoted in
> >>>> today's
> >>>> New York Times as saying that "Icann directors and staff worked hard to
> >>>> consult widely in the process of forming these committees,"
> >>>> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/cyber/capital/16capital.html
> >>>> .
> >>>>
> >>>> As far as I can tell, no one I know was consulted, and am I in touch
> >>>> with
> >>>> a lot of people interested in ICANN. My suspicion is that if ICANN did
> >>>> engage in consultations at all they were limited to participants in the
> >>>> late gTLD-MOU and/or representatives of large corporations.
> >>>>
> >>>> In order to test this intuition, I would be very interested in hearing
> >>>> from anyone who was actually consulted by ICANN prior to this
> >>>> announcement, whatever their affiliation.
> >>>>
> >>>> [This message is being cross-posted widely; please feel free to
> >>>> circulate
> >>>> as appropriate until May 25, 2000]
> >>>> --
> >>>>
> >>>> A. Michael Froomkin | Professor of Law | froomkin AT law.tm
> >>>> U. Miami School of Law, P.O. Box 248087, Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA
> >>>> +1 (305) 284-4285 | +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) | http://www.law.tm
> >>>> -->It's warm here.<--
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  • Re: ICANN creates election committees without public input?, B Holroyd, 05/20/2000

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