Saturday, August 07, 1999, 1:08:32 PM, Kent Crispin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 12:11:04PM -0700, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>> On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Esther Dyson wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks, Karl.
>> >
>> > We are indeed soliciting comments as you suggest at the end.
>>
>> What is truly unfortunate is that despite repeated requests you have not
>> addressed the substance of Karl's statements.
>>
>> ICANN willingly and knowingly violated its' own bylaws with the
>> ICANN Interim CEO and counsel present in taking actions to have certain
>> individuals forcibly ejected from a teleconference. Why?
> Because ICANN is supposed to respond to public input, and
> overwhelming public input was received that ICANN should revisit its
> earlier position regarding NSI.
Then by all means let them revisit it. But in the meantime they are
BOUND to act within the parameters of those bylaws.
There is no question here, the bylaws were violated. End of story.
You cannot change that by modifying the bylaws later.
>> Is this an issue that will ever be answered when it is asked by the
>> plebs, or will we be forced to have any meaningful question
>> asked by a Congressperson in order to receive an answer?
> You already know the answer; it has been given several times. You
> just don't like the answer. Furthermore, you ask it in a way that
> can have no meaningful answer ("Why?"). Finally, these are just
> ankle-biting, repetitive, questions for the purposes of being
> antagonistic, and after a while people stop paying attention.
I strenuously disagree. I for one want to know why ICANN would
violate its own bylaws, which they have pointed to as a reason why we
should trust them to act in our best interests despite the lack of
representation we currently suffer from.
If they can act so quickly to ignore and violate any section of the
bylaws that even a MAJORITY of the those positioning scream about,
what kind of trust can they engender? Those bylaws are supposed to
protect ALL interests, even those that are not necessarily in the
majority of participants. If they can be ignored willy nilly like
this, then they offer no protection at all, and provide no
justification for trust.
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