Hello Becky,
Please consider this a formal complaint wrt to
the recently released meeting minutes of the ICANN
Board of Directors' Meeting held on January 17th.
It would appear that ICANN is not fulfilling its
mandate as outlined in the White Paper, in the MoU
with your department, nor in its own By-Laws.
Specifically, the meeting in question was conducted
without the required public notice, and without the
required public comment period as outlined in Article
3, Section 3 of the ICANN By-Laws. How else will the
Internet community have an opportunity to comment on
decisions likely to affect them?
Furthermore, it would appear that decisions were
made to approve actions that had already been taken
by Mike Roberts. These decisions have resulted in
a situation whereby Mike Roberts now has autonomous
authority to bind ICANN without any further review
from the ICANN Board, and without any comments
from the Internet community.
Finally, I object to the concept that meeting minutes
are somehow sufficient to inform the Internet community
about such important decisions. These meeting minutes
certainly highlight my concerns!
Since ICANN is clearly not willing to have open Board
meetings, and since ICANN is clearly not willing to
abide by the terms of the White Paper, the MoU, nor
its own By-Laws, it is clearly up to the Commerce
Department to address this situation.
And if Commerce is unable or unwilling to provide this
"adult supervision", then the Internet community will
have little choice but to escalate these issues to the
appropriate members of Congress and/or the Executive
branch.
Respectfully,
Jay Fenello
President, Iperdome, Inc.
404-943-0524 http://www.iperdome.com
At 2/3/99, 06:06 PM, Gordon Cook wrote:
>well well well isn't that just delightful. On January 14 I made the first
>public report of the leasing out of the IANA employees via Mike roberts
>cosy little actions last september and continuing down through the
>explanation of the december 24th "deal" to extend the process beyond
>january 1.
>
>THREE DAYS LATER the board has a special teleconference to catch up on
>things and decides to grant Roberts ex post facto blessing for what he has
>done....
>
>Gotta like that ICANN "open" style
>
>and it then takes almost 3 weeks to get minutes posted.... thats sim's
>definition of timely or is it Roberts?
>
>
>>FYI, the draft minutes of the Jan. 17 special meeting of the ICANN board
>>are now posted at http://www.icann.org/minutes-17jan99.html.
>>
>>Molly Shaffer Van Houweling
>>Senior Advisor
>>ICANN
>
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