Gordon,
Any chance you can tell who 'one of the mighty five' was so we
corroborate the circa October 26th phone call?
Gordon Cook wrote:
>
> Thinking about the following passage while walking the dog.
>
> According to Michael Sondow, Mike roberts wrote:
>
> > The bottom line for the Initial Board is
> > that the USG has asked that it take up these responsibilities in
> > fulfillment of the White Paper. That is a sufficient authority
> > for us to proceed.
>
> Mike you still didn't answer a perfectly simple question that I asked you a
> day ago and that is to cite your source....namely who in the US government
> requested this, what their language was, and where their request was made
> public.
>
> Fact of the matter is you don't answer because you can't. more over the
> constitution of the original board was also a sham. I am sure you thought
> that Ira and becky would give you their blessing and that the US government
> would early in october ask you to consitute your board. Didn't happen. So
> you went ahead and did it anyway...on your own authority.
>
> what i remembered just know was what one of the mighty five told me in a
> phone call circa october 26th.
>
> 'we went ahead and made our own decision to constitute the board and choose
> Dyuson as chair and Roberts as president because that was the only way that
> we could make any forward progress.'
>
> so ICANN gives itself authority and acts as a law unto itself??
>
> Is that the answer mike?
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> NOTE: Contempt in which ICANN PRES. MIKE ROBERTS holds rest of Internet:
> "Some of those people think the management [ICANN] should check with the
> public [the Communities of the Internet] every time they make a decision,
> which is crazy," Roberts said. "That's flat-out crazy." WIRED NEWS 2/4/99
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