Here are more questions, besides those in Mr. Bliley's June 22 letter to Esther Dyson, that need to be answered: 1) What compensation, or promises of compensation, has Joe Sims or his firm Jones Day received for his and their work for ICANN. 2) What are the arrangements between Michael Roberts and EDUCOM, on the one hand, and ICANN/ISOC on the other, for EDUCOM to be given .EDU? When were those arrangements, if any, first made? 3) What role has Vint Cerf played in the formation of ICANN? Is Mr. Cerf planning to be a candidate for President of ICANN? What are the funding arrangements between his company, MCI, and ISOC and CORE? Have payments been made between MCI and ICANN other than those attested to by the GIP? Between MCI and CORE? Between MCI and any of the individuals on the ICANN Board or on any of ICANN's sub-entities? What about payments from IBM? 4) What is the true role of David Maher, who appears to be a member of CORE, ISOC, INTA, and IBM all together, in ICANN? Who pays for Mr. Maher's travel expenses? 5) Who is Javier Sola? What are Mr. Sola's connections with Christopher Wilkinson, a member of the Policy Oversight Committee of CORE, and with the European Union, whose spokesperson in ICANN is Christopher Wilkinson? Why was Mr. Sola chosen as ISOC's V-P for conferences? What are his connections with CORE? What is the European Internet Business Association, of which he is president? What is the AUI, of which he is secretary? Who funds those organizations? What are Mr. Sola's connections with David Maher? How did Mr. Sola come to chair the DNSO Names Council? Why was he allowed to eject people from the June 11 NC teleconference when he wasn't the leader of the call? Who set up that call? What are Mr. Sola's connections with Michael Roberts and Joe Sims, who were on that call but never spoke? 6) When was Paul Twomey first approached to head ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee? Who approached him about it? What are his connections to ISOC? To the trademark lobby in Washington and Brussels? To Christopher Wilkinson? To Vint Cerf? To David Maher? 7) What was Beckwith Burr talking to Roger Cochetti about at the FTC meeting in Washington on June 9th, that they needed to hide at the end of the corridor after everyone else had entered the hall? 8) What contributions, if any, have MCI and IBM made to the Democratic Party? If contributions have been made, when were they made? 9) What persons in the Department of Commerce or other Departments of the U.S.G. have professional or commercial connections to MCI, IBM, and the other companies financing ICANN? (More to come...)
