Ellen Rony writes: > It's unfortunate that ICANN, the non-profit corporation > corporation charged with the administration of Internet > names and addresses, felt it necessary to hire a PR agency. > A fair measure of criticism against ICANN would dissipate > if its board meetings were opened to the public. Jay Fennello concurs: = Actually, openning up your Board meetings = will solve most of your problems. IMHO. Einar Stefferud comments: + ... it is becoming more and more clear that until someone does + somthing serious to get the attention of the BoD to this issue, + they are going to just coast along as they are, hoping that in + the end the US Government will not have any options left but to + just go along with whatever ICANN wishes to do without oversight. Watch out people, what you are asking for is so minimal that, once the PR mechanisms are in place and it is safe to unleash the ICANN paper tiger, you will all have very little ground left to stand upon. Real decision making will have been consolidated behind the scenes and all that will be presented for the eager and simplistic press will be sham meetings that will not only be completely open but also absolutely orchestrated and completely fixed. We must turn our backs completely on ICANN and the rather clever if essentially undemocratic maneuvering of whomever is behind this organization. We must return to the original and very legitimate process of building a solid regulatory structure *not* set ourselves up to eventual co-optation in a warped and unsustainable regime of inflexibility and deep fragmentation. ICANN is a dead end. Why continually drive us all down it? Bob Allisat Free Community Network _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fcn.net _ http://fcn.net/allisat http://robin.fcn.net
