Jay, Becky and all,
We at INEGroup would like to second Jays concern and complaint
as well...
Jay Fenello wrote:
> 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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Regards,
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