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Thought you would be interested in this....
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Declan McCullagh wrote:
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> 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]
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