Joop and all,
Good suggestion here. (See more below your comments)
Joop Teernstra wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We have had little discussion about the resolutions that the ICANN interim
> Board made in Berlin.
> Certainly not all appeared in the press release.
>
> Let's enumerate some of them.
>
> 1. Not to have an open Board meeting in Berlin.
>
> The public meeting in which some members the Board replied to public
> questions should not be confused with an open Board meeting. We did not
> hear the Board's deliberations on the merits of the contituency
> applications, for example. We do not know the positions of each Board
> member on the decisions taking in Singapore on dividing the DNSO into
> constituencies and the rationale of limiting the constituencies to exclude
> the representation of the Individual DN owner.
> As Richard Sexton pointed out, most members of the Board remained totally
> silent and left the talking to Esther, Mike Roberts and George Conrades.
This continuing position of the ICANN Interim Board meetings being closed
and minuets not being provided, is the single most important violations
of the White paper that the ICANN Interim Board has been guilty of. For this
reason above all others their transparency and openness is certainly
on question.
>
>
> 2. Not to have the entire Board present at the Press conference.
>
> Only Esther Dyson and Mike Roberts were there, flanked by 2 staff from
> their lawyers Jones&Day, Mr Sims and Mr Louis Tuton (sp?).
> This enabled the rest of the Board to hide their positions and to escape
> from possibly awkward questions by the press.
I personally view this as fairly minor, yet it is at least bad form and an
indicator of the lack of openness that the ICANN Interim Board continues
to display.
>
>
> 3. Not to have the decisions made in the closed meetings of 26 and 27 April
> in Room 217 of the Adlon Hotel presented by a Board member to the waiting
> DNS community, but to leave this job to the ICANN lawyer, Mt Tuton.
> Mr Tuton did not volonteer any information about the decisions taken on the
> application of the Individuals for a recognised constituency, but only on
> being asked, revealed that indeed a resolution has been passed on the IDNO
> application and that it was resolved to take no action on the application.
You should not be surprised on this decision of the ICANN Interim
Board with respect to the IDNO. As we all know very well the ICANN
Interim Board does NOT want individual representation in any form
that is meaningful, and most especially in the DNSO or the ASO.
This is of course appalling and should be viewed in the light that
it appears to be.
>
>
> 4. Not to publish the Board resolution on the only timely bottom-up
> application for recognition of a constituency, the IDNO application.
>
> This has led to speculation as to why.
> At least during the press conference the issue was addressed and the
> resolution was mentioned. Upon being asked, the two Board members present
> explained the resolution by referring to the still unresolved issues of
> ICANN at large membership.
Yes, and this weak explanation from the ICANN Interim Board is indeed
indicative of their side stepping approach. Shows poor leadership.
>
> This is the point where the other Board members should have been quizzed
> about their positions on the issue and the likelihood of action prior to
> the Santiago meeting.
Agreed. Have you thought about asking the ICANN Interim board
privately on this matter via E-Mail? Not that they will reply of course...
>
>
> The incompleteness of the press release leaves an uncomfortable question
> mark about possible other secret resolutions.
It at least leaves allot to speculation anyway...
>
>
> --Joop Teernstra LL.M.--
> the Cyberspace Association,
> the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
> http://www.democracy.org.nz/idno/
Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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