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FC: ICANN creates election committees without public input?
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:14:32 -0400
******** Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:01:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin () law miami edu> To: DOMAIN-POLICY () LISTS INTERNIC NET, list () 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 () 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.<-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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