Me to teresa reefe contracts specialist at NIST in a phone call regarding the Commerce business daily jan 6 announcement of intent to give ICANN sole source contract award for the IANA functions. Thanks to jim fleming whose search bots scour the net and is I understand the person who dug this dirty little secret out of ICANN's closet. No this does not mean I am becoming a fan of Jim ...just giving credit where credit is do. Cook: Sole source? Reefe: Yes. Cook: on what grounds? How could they justify it in view of the 11/25 mou. Reefe: had a lot of people calling today complaining about that very thing. if you wish to join them in protesting a sole source award to ICANN send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] *************************************************************************** The COOK Report on Internet What Happened to the White Paper? 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA ICANN a Sham. (updated 10/25/98) See (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) http://www.cookreport.com/whorules.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index to 6 years of COOK Report, how to subscribe, exec summaries, special reports, gloss at http://www.cookreport.com *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________ To receive the digest version instead, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___END____________________________________________
