Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

[Shea Tisdale <shea AT networkarts.com>]

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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